Since the Cities are the Cities (Henry Lawson Poems)
FOOLS can parrot-cry the prophet when the proof is close at hand,And the blind can see the danger when the ...
FOOLS can parrot-cry the prophet when the proof is close at hand,And the blind can see the danger when the ...
BEHOLD, the harvest is at hand;And thick on the encircling hillsThe sheaves like an encampment stand,Making a martial fairy-landThat half ...
"Man, Blake was fine: ev'ry word that he spokeSnapped out like the crack of a whip.D ye mind where he ...
IAlas, unhappy land: ill-fated spotKotal--though where or whatOn earth Kotal is, the bard forgot;Further than this indeed he knoweth not--It ...
PHI BETA KAPPAWENDELL PHILLIPS, ORATOR; CHARLES GODFREY LELAND, POET1881"THE Dutch have taken Holland,"--so the schoolboys used to say;The Dutch have ...
This is a wild land, country of my choice,With harsh craggy mountain, moor ample and bare.Seldom in these acres is ...
For him who brake in thund rous fray the ocean power of SpainWe have rebuilt the Flavian arch of Titus, ...
A Historical Tragedy in Five Acts.This play is dedicated, in profound veneration and respect, to thememory of George Eliot, the ...
No not to-night, dear child; I cannot go; I'm busy, tired; they knew I should not come; you do not ...
ACT IV.SCENE I. The City Hall at Nordhausen. Deputies and Burghers assembling. To the right, at a table near the ...
Trapped amid the woods with guileThey've led her bound in fetters vileTo death, a deadlier sorceressThan any born for earth's ...
Majuba Day! Majuba Day!Here's a health to Bobs and his force to-day!For the wiped-out shame from Britannia's fame,And the work ...
The Children of the Sun are out, About the hills and beaches -The stolid burghers halo and stout,The tailored sheik, ...
In the valley of the Pegnitz, where across broad meadow-lands Rise the blue Franconian mountains, Nuremberg, the ancient, stands. Quaint ...
It were after the Battle of Crecy- The foe all lay dead on the ground- And King Edward went out ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
AUGUST 17, 1914 The gabled roofs of old Malines Are russet red and gray and green, And o'er them in ...
A merry burgomaster In a burgh upon the Rhine Said, "Our burghers all are Far too fond of drinking wine." ...
Straight-spined girl-yes, you of the glinting earrings, amber skin and sinuous hair: what happened? you've no business lunching with sticky ...
'and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence' -- George Eliot, Middlemarch Dead ...
(From the early Anglo-Saxon text) May I for my own self song's truth reckon, Journey's jargon, how I in harsh ...
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