The Levelled Churchyard (Thomas Hardy Poem)
"O passenger, pray list and catch Our sighs and piteous groans, Half stifled in this jumbled patch Of wrenched memorial ...
"O passenger, pray list and catch Our sighs and piteous groans, Half stifled in this jumbled patch Of wrenched memorial ...
(i) absinthe makes the hurt grow fonder the green fairy burbles what's this 'ere when vincent (sozzled) knifes his lug ...
YOUTH. AWAY, thou swarthy witch! Go forth From out my house, I tell thee! Or else I needs must, in ...
in the wares before you spread, Types of all things may be read. 'NEATH the shadow Of these bushes, On ...
Out in the sky the great dark clouds are massing; I look far out into the pregnant night, Where I ...
I There was an ancient City, stricken down With a strange frenzy, and for many a day They paced from ...
Don't fear death in earthly travels. Don't fear enemies or friends. Just listen to the words of prayers, To pass ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
The roses of Love glad the garden of life, Though nurtur'd 'mid weeds dropping pestilent dew, Till Time crops the ...
CURS'D be the man, the poorest wretch in life, The crouching vassal to a tyrant wife! Who has no will ...
SHE wanders in the April woods, That glisten with the fallen shower; She leans her face against the buds, She ...
FROM those drear solitudes and frowsy cells, Where Infamy with sad Repentance dwells; Where turnkeys make the jealous portal fast, ...
Never try to trick me with a kiss Pretending that the birds are here to stay; The dying man will ...
Beat the squares with the tramp of rebels! Higher, rangers of haughty heads! We'll wash the world with a second ...
'Twas in the year of 1888, and on July the 14th day, That an alarming accident occurred in the River ...
Alas! Now o'er Britannia there hangs a gloom, Because over 400 British Tars have met with a watery tomb; Who ...
Two terrors fright my soul by night and day: The first is Life, and with her come the years; A ...
Welcome, old friend! These many years Have we lived door by door; The fates have laid aside their shears Perhaps ...
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