Dressing Gown Farewell (Piotr Andreevich Viazemsky Poems)
Forgive me, dressing gown! My friend in idle bliss,Comrade of leisure, a witness to my secret thoughts!With you I knew ...
Forgive me, dressing gown! My friend in idle bliss,Comrade of leisure, a witness to my secret thoughts!With you I knew ...
Since, Oh, Beloved, you are not even faithful To me, who loved you so, for one short night,For one brief space ...
Sunbright ale is royal food, Jarring cups disloyal feud. I will cheer my soaking mood Till the orchards reel. Brews good ale is no ...
Syed Amir is dead, and his numerous foesAre hushed in a breathless awe of amazed relief.The hearts of his friends ...
Why is it so, Dear Prince of Peace,That wrongs to Negroes never cease?Are they disloyal to thy name,And thus are ...
(It is reported that women in Stuttgart have been forbidden by military proclamation to cast amorous glances on the British ...
Faded the footstep of Spring from our garden, Sighing the Autumn wind vanishing goes,Behold now, how close to us dreams are ...
The HumiliationThe Summary of the Poem.Theophila, or Divine Love, ascends to her Belov'd by three Degrees. By Humilitie, by Zeal, ...
TIS April! 'Tis a holyday! and they shut close yester-even The golden gates of Sydenham with the clang of iron ...
Am I to become profligate as if I were a blonde? Or religiousas if I were French?Each time my heart ...
When that great Gen'ralissimo of all Infernal Janizaries shall His Legions of Temptations raise, enroul, And muster Them 'gainst Thee, ...
Feast on wine or fast on water And your honour shall stand sure, God Almighty's son and daughter He the ...
INSTEAD of a Song, boy's, I'll give you a Toast; Here's to the memory of those on the twelfth that ...
REVERED defender of beauteous Stuart, Of Stuart, a name once respected; A name, which to love was the mark of ...
When my blood flows calm as a purling river, When my heart is asleep and my brain has sway, It ...
Queen Guinevere had fled the court, and sat There in the holy house at Almesbury Weeping, none with her save ...
Ah whither, Love, wilt thou now carry me? What wontless fury dost thou now inspire Into my feeble breast, too ...
AH whither, Love, wilt thou now carry me? What wontless fury dost thou now inspire Into my feeble breast, too ...
Though dark are our sorrows, today we'll forget them, And smile through our tears, like a sunbeam in showers: There ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
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