Sonnet XVII: Stay, Speedy Time (Michael Drayton Poem)
To Time Stay, speedy Time, behold, before thou pass, From age to age what thou hast sought to see, One ...
To Time Stay, speedy Time, behold, before thou pass, From age to age what thou hast sought to see, One ...
Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance; Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; ...
FAIR stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; ...
Fair stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; ...
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver, Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc. ...
Farewell, too little and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own; For sure our souls ...
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
For every hour that thou wilt spare me now I will allow, Usurious God of Love, twenty to thee, When ...
Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy ...
They say that "Time assuages" -- Time never did assuage -- An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age ...
The Poets light but Lamps -- Themselves -- go out -- The Wicks they stimulate -- If vital Light Inhere ...
It grew out of the Annexe and our Corps in a world at peace while our army trained, magnificent in ...
Our lives were founded on this rock, this Jessie of Gibraltar Whose unfailing love endured beyond her ample nursing, And ...
I Soul, what art thou in the tribes of the sea? LORD, said a flying fish, Below the foundations of ...
At the back of the noisy café bent over a table sits an old man; a newspaper in front of ...
'Tis true, dear Ben, thy just chastising hand Hath fix'd upon the sotted age a brand To their swoll'n pride ...
Old King Cole Was a merry old soul And a merry old soul was he He called for his pipe ...
Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has ...
(Ezekiel, xlviii.35) As birds their infant brood protect, And spread their wings to shelter them, Thus saith the Lord to ...
The twentieth year is well nigh past Since first our sky was overcast;- Ah would that this might be the ...
Delia, the unkindest girl on earth, When I besought the fair, That favour of intrinsic worth A ringlet of her ...
Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you ...
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
Notus in fratres animi paterni. Hor. Carm. lib.II.2. A bless?d lot hath he, who having passed His youth and early ...
The Renaissance men are aging now, having survived Industrialization's Original Sin and the Information Age flood; The need for specialization ...
If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move ...
Bells are booming down the bohreens, White the mist along the grass, Now the Julias, Maeves and Maureens Move between ...
Encase your legs in nylons, Bestride your hills with pylons O age without a soul; Away with gentle willows And ...
"When I hit her on the head, it was good, and then I did it to her a couple of ...
WE take from life one little share, And say that this shall be A space, redeemed from toil and care, ...
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