A Tale of Starvation (Amy Lowell Poem)
There once was a man whom the gods didn't love, And a disagreeable man was he. He loathed his neighbours, ...
There once was a man whom the gods didn't love, And a disagreeable man was he. He loathed his neighbours, ...
The trumpet's voice, loud and authoritative, Draws me a moment to the lighted glass To watch the dancers - all ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
Help for a patriot distressed, a spotless spirit hurt, Help for an honourable clan sore trampled in the dirt! From ...
'T was Fultah Fisher's boarding-house, Where sailor-men reside, And there were men of all the ports From Mississip to Clyde, ...
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you ...
My body, eh? Friend Death, how now? Why all this tedious pomp of writ? Thou hast reclaimed it sure and ...
If, in an odd angle of the hutment, A puppy laps the water from a can Of flowers, and the ...
I was born in 1902 I never once went back to my birthplace I don't like to turn back at ...
Good Father!. 'Twas an eve in middle June, And war was waged anew By great Napoleon, who for years had ...
THE two were silent in a sunless church, Whose mildewed walls, uneven paving-stones, And wasted carvings passed antique research; And ...
Good people all, of every sort, Give ear unto my song; And if you find it wondrous short, It cannot ...
Remember that time you made the wish? I make a lot of wishes. The time I lied to you about ...
A shiver with the room a shudder as they lied denying the truth plain to our sight Wondering aloud what ...
If I have erred in showing all my heart, And lost your favour by a lack of pride; If standing ...
The last unicorn was never free to chose another ending, the plaintive melody entrained with sweet orchestral strains describing it ...
We came to find the place contained in legendary tracts, the hidden land of fulsome wealth that we had sorely ...
I said goodbye and went to bed to die; I never knew that they had lied - was quite surprised ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
(co-written by Sharon Robinson) Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that ...
You saw sagacious Solomon You know what came of him, To him complexities seemed plain. He cursed the hour that ...
Christ God who savest man, save most Of men Count Gismond who saved me! Count Gauthier, when he chose his ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
1842 I As I ride, as I ride, With a full heart for my guide, So its tide rocks my ...
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that ...
'Draw three cards, and I will tell your future . . . Draw three cards, and lay them down, Rest ...
I GAT your letter, winsome Willie; Wi' gratefu' heart I thank you brawlie; Tho' I maun say't, I wad be ...
The cypress stood up like a church That night we felt our love would hold, And saintly moonlight seemed to ...
when I look back now at the abuse I took from her I feel shame that I was so innocent, ...
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