HIS AGE:DEDICATED TO HIS PECULIAR FRIEND,MR JOHN WICKES, UNDER THE NAME OFPOSTUMUS (Robert Herrick Poem)
Ah, Posthumus! our years hence fly And leave no sound: nor piety, Or prayers, or vow Can keep the wrinkle ...
Ah, Posthumus! our years hence fly And leave no sound: nor piety, Or prayers, or vow Can keep the wrinkle ...
Lord, Thou hast given me a cell Wherein to dwell; An little house, whose humble roof Is weather-proof; Under the ...
for T. P. Flanagan We have no prairies To slice a big sun at evening-- Everywhere the eye concedes to ...
Fine living . . . a la carte? Come to the Waldorf-Astoria! LISTEN HUNGRY ONES! Look! See what Vanity Fair ...
(roundel: variation of the rondeau consisting of three stanzas of three lines each, linked together with but two rhymes and ...
Here's to the men! Since Adam's time They've always been the same; Whenever anything goes wrong, The woman is to ...
When things are hard and troublesome, And life for you looks dim; Bills and debts grow daily, And finances seem ...
There is a way, Which seems right unto man; But the end there of, Will kill if it can. ***** ...
Lord, God Almighty I fear You Your holy presence sitting in Your courts humble, as a man knowing my feet ...
Each of us, irregular stones, living stones, for the kingdom each with a place, a part to place to build ...
A live coal in the grasp of a six-winged seraph a burning ember of a sacrifice touched to the seer's ...
I rose to ask a question feeling unsure, a bit ill at ease like Bob Cratchett asking for coal or ...
Our life is a fire dampened, or a fire shut up in stone. --Jacob Boehme, De Incarnatione Verbi Outside everything ...
For Lincoln MacVeagh Never tell me that not one star of all That slip from heaven at night and softly ...
A stranger came to the door at eve, And he spoke the bridegroom fair. He bore a green-white stick in ...
A blackbird lands A good beer-barrel A man sits in a cave knitting A theatre in Copenhagen Abask the sea-wall ...
But let us leave Queen Mab a while, Through many a gate, o'er many a stile, That now had gotten ...
The smouldering embers blush -- Oh Hearts within the Coal Hast thou survived so many years? The smouldering embers smile ...
The Day that I was crowned Was like the other Days -- Until the Coronation came -- And then -- ...
It seldom snowed they said, and they were nearly right. In all of nine eventful seasons crystal white on average ...
Praise the good-tempered summer and the red cardinal that jumps like a hot coal off the track. Praise the heavy ...
John Grubby who was short and stout And troubled with religious doubt, Refused about the age of three To sit ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
The poet in his lone yet genial hour Gives to his eyes a magnifying power : Or rather he emancipates ...
I have questioned the loyalty of rivers in winter, their yearnings for oceans obstructed, indecisive meandering clogged by ice floes ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
She died in the upstairs bedroom By the light of the ev'ning star That shone through the plate glass window ...
The great millennium is at hand. Redder apples grow on the tree. A saxophone is in ev'ry band. Brandy no ...
AN ALPHABET OF FAMOUS GOOPS. Which you 'll Regard with Yells and Whoops. Futile Acumen! For you Yourselves are Doubtless ...
MOTHER of memories, mistress of mistresses, O thou, my pleasure, thou, all my desire, Thou shalt recall the beauty of ...
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