The Kalevala – Rune XXIII (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
OSMOTAR THE BRIDE-ADVISERNow the bride must be instructed,Who will teach the Maid of Beauty,Who instruct the Rainbow-daughter?Osmotar, the wisdom-maiden,Kalew's fair ...
OSMOTAR THE BRIDE-ADVISERNow the bride must be instructed,Who will teach the Maid of Beauty,Who instruct the Rainbow-daughter?Osmotar, the wisdom-maiden,Kalew's fair ...
SILENT old gateway! whose two columns stand Like simple monuments on either hand; No trellised iron-work, with pleasant view Of ...
GIVE me O indulgent Fate!Give me yet, before I Dye,A sweet, but absolute Retreat,'Mongst Paths so lost, and Trees so ...
O YE ancient and undisturbed Armenian plains of kind mornings,And ye, golden fields, rich orchards, and pastures smiling with life,Ye ...
Somehow I never liked you, John, your ways were crude Your smile was pharisaical, your manners rude; Although you prospered ...
I Whate'er I be, old England is my dam! So there's my answer to the judges, clear. I'm nothing of ...
Come, my little Robert, near—Fie! what filthy hands are here—Who that e'er could understandThe rare structure of a hand,With its ...
If only dinner cooked itself,And groceries grew upon the shelf;If children did as they were told,And never had a cough ...
To prink me up, and make me higher placed, All came too late that tarried any time; Piles of provision ...
I love thee as I love the holiest things,Like perfect poetry and angels' wings,And cleanliness, and sacred motherhood,And all things ...
Groping back to bed after a piss I part the thick curtains, and am startled by The rapid clouds, the ...
My God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately habitation, But he that means to dwell therein. ...
Leave me, my blamer, For the sake of the love Which unites your soul with That of your beloved one; ...
Each of us a vessel God's love to reveal filled with his grace, his blessing pouring out his love each ...
Give me, O indulgent Fate! Give me yet before I die A sweet, but absolute retreat, 'Mongst paths so lost ...
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
Flowers through the window lavender and yellow changed by white curtains- Smell of cleanliness- Sunshine of late afternoon- On the ...
All week she's cleaned someone else's house, stared down her own face in the shine of copper-- bottomed pots, polished ...
BEHAVIOR-fresh, native, copious, each one for himself or herself, Nature and the Soul expressed-America and freedom expressed-In it the finest ...
I never kill a fly because I think that what we have of laws To regulate and civilize Our daily ...
Time was when his half million drew The breath of six per cent; But soon the worm of what-was-not Fed ...
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