Snake (David Herbert Lawrence Poem)
A snake came to my water-trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat, To drink ...
A snake came to my water-trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat, To drink ...
Paul Jannes was working very late, For this watch must be done by eight To-morrow or the Cardinal Would certainly ...
Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal Pouring redemption for me, that I do The will of God, ...
We were all one heart and one race When the Abbey trumpets blew. For a moment's breathing-space We had forgotten ...
Abdhur Rahman, the Durani Chief, of him is the story told. His mercy fills the Khyber hills -- his grace ...
It lies before me there, and my own breath Stirs its thin outer threads, as though beside The living head ...
It was the pleasant season yet, When the stones at cottage doors Dry quickly, while the roads are wet, After ...
TO THE HONOURED MR ENDYMION PORTER, GROOM OF THE BED-CHAMBER TO HIS MAJESTY Sweet country life, to such unknown, Whose ...
(i) i believed in flower-power (the triumph of the meek) the thought that what a wind could bend was not ...
(from a painting by hugo simberg) those who bear the wounded angel are they honoured or destroyed far beyond their ...
a cold bright sun two days to christmas a first-quarter moon at a good vantage-point a small white coffin driven ...
in my reading of the moment i have learned the figure next to christ in da vinci's last supper (a ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
The Druids waved their golden knives And danced around the Oak When they had sacrificed a man; But though the ...
Matron! the children of whose love, Each to his grave, in youth have passed, And now the mould is heaped ...
Most truly honoured, and as truly dear, If worth in me or ought I do appear, Who can of right ...
My framework is broken, I am coming to an end, God send it soon. When I had most to say ...
Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat- Found the ...
KNOW thou, O stranger to the fame Of this much lov'd, much honoured name! (For none that knew him need ...
YE sons of old Killie, assembled by Willie, To follow the noble vocation; Your thrifty old mother has scarce such ...
A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector That Providence which had so long the care ...
". . . defeated, with great loss." Not we the conquered! Not to us the blame Of them that flee, ...
Daughter to that good Earl, one President Of England's Council and her Treasury, Who lived in both unstained with gold ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
I may not weep, not weep, and he is dead. A weary, weary weight of tears unshed Through the long ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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