Four Riddles (Lewis Carroll Poem)
I There was an ancient City, stricken down With a strange frenzy, and for many a day They paced from ...
I There was an ancient City, stricken down With a strange frenzy, and for many a day They paced from ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Now darkness ponds upon the violet hills; cicadas sing; the tall elms gently sway; and night bends near, a deepening ...
A fine and subtle spirit dwells In every little flower, Each one its own sweet feeling breathes With more or ...
My God! O let me call Thee mine! Weak wretched sinner though I be, My trembling soul would fain be ...
While on my lonely couch I lie, I seldom feel myself alone, For fancy fills my dreaming eye With scenes ...
A fine and subtle spirit dwells In every little flower, Each one its own sweet feeling breathes With more or ...
My God (oh, let me call Thee mine, Weak, wretched sinner though I be), My trembling soul would fain be ...
The perilous yellow sun follows with its slant eyes masts of the shuddered grove steaming up to capsize in the ...
The stone-built villages of England. A cathedral bottled in a pub window. Cows dispersed across fields. Monuments to kings. A ...
Methinks in Him there dwells alway A sea of laughter very deep, Where the leviathans leap, And little children play, ...
' SISTER, you've sat there all the day, Come to the hearth awhile; The wind so wildly sweeps away, The ...
BUT two miles more, and then we rest ! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the ...
I know it's a bad title but I'm giving it to myself as a gift on a day nearly canceled ...
Beautiful cloud! with folds so soft and fair, Swimming in the pure quiet air! Thy fleeces bathed in sunlight, while ...
I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round, And thought that when I came to lie At ...
Love's worshippers alone can know The thousand mysteries that are his; His blazing torch, his twanging bow, His blooming age ...
Tenderly, day that I have loved, I close your eyes, And smooth your quiet brow, and fold your thin dead ...
(Halted around the fire by night, after moon-set, they sing this beneath the trees.) What light of unremembered skies Hast ...
Proem. 1.1 Although great Queen, thou now in silence lie, 1.2 Yet thy loud Herald Fame, doth to the sky ...
The grey gulls drift across the bay Softly and still as flakes of snow Against the thinning fog. All day ...
The boat ploughed on. Now Alcatraz was past And all the grey waves flamed to red again At the dead ...
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
A tiger comes to mind. The twilight here Exalts the vast and busy Library And seems to set the bookshelves ...
THERE are some powerful odours that can pass Out of the stoppard flagon; even glass To them is porous. Oft ...
I'M like some king in whose corrupted veins Flows ag?d blood; who rules a land of rains; Who, young in ...
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
ADMIRING Nature in her wildest grace, These northern scenes with weary feet I trace; O'er many a winding dale and ...
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