Waverley (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
1814-1914 When, on a novel's newly printed page We find a maudlin eulogy of sin, And read of ways that ...
1814-1914 When, on a novel's newly printed page We find a maudlin eulogy of sin, And read of ways that ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some ...
Get up, get up for shame! the blooming morn Upon her wings presents the god unshorn. See how Aurora throws ...
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
"Willis, I didn't want you here to-day: The lawyer's coming for the company. I'm going to sell my soul, or, ...
Phoebus, arise! And paint the sable skies With azure, white, and red: Rouse Memnon's mother from her Tithon's bed That ...
The Lilac is an ancient shrub But ancienter than that The Firmamental Lilac Upon the Hill tonight -- The Sun ...
1 O! Solitude, my sweetest choice Places devoted to the night, Remote from tumult, and from noise, How you my ...
Touch it: it won't shrink like an eyeball, This egg-shaped bailiwick, clear as a tear. Here's yesterday, last year --- ...
'Twas in scientific circles That the great Professor Brown Had a world-wide reputation As a writer of renown. He had ...
How wise I am to have instructed the butler to instruct the first footman to instruct the second footman to ...
We who travel between worlds lose our muscle and bone. I was wheeling a barrow of earth when agony bayoneted ...
I was making my way home late one night this summer, when I staggered into a snow drift. Her eyes ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
See with what simplicity This Nimph begins her golden daies! In the green Grass she loves to lie, And there ...
C. Damon come drive thy flocks this way. D. No : 'tis too late they went astray. C. I have ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
Where does evil come from? It comes from man always from man only from man - Tadeusz Rozewicz Alas, dear ...
As you descend, slowly, falling faster past you this snow, ghostly, some flakes bio- luminescent (you plunge, and this lit ...
Sweet serene sky-like flower, Haste to adorn her bower; From thy long cloudy bed Shoot forth thy damask head! New-startled ...
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