The Vanity of Human Wishes (excerpts) (Samuel Johnson Poem)
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
My left hand will live longer than my right. The rivers of my palms tell me so. Never argue with ...
When the wasting embers redden the chimney-breast, And Life's bare pathway looms like a desert track to me, And from ...
There was a time in former years-- While my roof-tree was his-- When I should have been distressed by fears ...
owls and pussy cats can make up their minds to sail out to sea and even get married but they ...
Tugging at our hearts lessons of Jesus to take up our cross and to trust in the Lord Welcoming strangers ...
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer: Of France the pride and honour I aver; The Holy Ampoule and ...
A house that lacks, seemingly, mistress and master, With doors that none but the wind ever closes, Its floor all ...
What care I, so they stand the same,- Things of the heavenly mind,- How long the power to give them ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Black granite stretches its harsh, tapering wings up to pedestrian-level grass but sucks me down, here, at the intersection of ...
I Everyone has their own peculiar price, not quantifiable in currency. When my hypodermic grazed your vein, you confessed yours. ...
Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown we drink it at noon in the morning we drink it ...
To tell the Saviour all my wants, How pleasing is the task! Nor less to praise Him when He grants ...
Sometimes a light surprises The Christian while he sings; It is the Lord who rises With healing on His wings; ...
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
I. The morn when first it thunders in March, The eel in the pond gives a leap, they say: As ...
But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppress'd, And secret passions labour'd in her breast. Not youthful kings in battle seiz'd ...
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
To Jena Woodhouse This way of minutes miserably mixed With their own blinks misunderstood By birds and trees, this eye-born ...
PART I O! nothing earthly save the ray (Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty's eye, As in those gardens where ...
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
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