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 ...
"You are old, Father william," the young man said, "And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon; And, if the sun looks through, 'tis with a face Beamless ...
Christmass is come and every hearth Makes room to give him welcome now Een want will dry its tears in ...
And art thou he, now "fallen on evil days," And changed indeed! Yet what do this sunk cheek, These thinner ...
Kind o'er the kinderbank leans my Myfanwy, White o'er the playpen the sheen of her dress, Fresh from the bathroom ...
Call me away; there's nothing here, That wins my soul to stay; Then let me leave this prospect drear, And ...
High stretched upon the swinging yard, I gather in the sheet; But it is hard And stiff, and one cries ...
What is she writing? Watch her now, How fast her fingers move ! How eagerly her youthful brow Is bent ...
The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by, As if they loved to breast the breeze ...
The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses--showers and ...
Come, take our boy, and we will go Before our cabin door; The winds shall bring us, as they blow, ...
I He wakes in darkness. All around are sounds of stones shifting, locks unlocking. As if some one had lifted ...
THE PUDDING MASTER OF STANLEY BASIN Tree, snow and rock beginnings, the mountain in back of the lake promised us ...
This faint resemblance of thy charms, (Though strong as mortal art could give,) My constant heart of fear disarms, Revives ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
28 July Calmly, while sat up friendlies & made noise delight fuller than he can ready sing or studiously say, ...
Sick at 6 & sick again at 9 was Henry's gloomy Monday morning oh. Still he had to lecture. They ...
THERE are some powerful odours that can pass Out of the stoppard flagon; even glass To them is porous. Oft ...
Among these latter busts we count by scores, Half-emperors and quarter-emperors, Each with his bay-leaf fillet, loose-thonged vest, Loricand low-browed ...
I. All I believed is true! I am able yet All I want, to get By a method as strange ...
I. Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
(PIANO DI SORRENTO.) Fortu, Frotu, my beloved one, Sit here by my side, On my knees put up both little ...
I That fawn-skin-dappled hair of hers, And the blue eye Dear and dewy, And that infantine fresh air of hers! ...
I COFT a stane o' haslock woo', To mak a wab to Johnie o't; For Johnie is my only jo, ...
Chorus.-Lassie wi'the lint-white locks, Bonie lassie, artless lassie, Wilt thou wi' me tent the flocks, Wilt thou be my Dearie, ...
IN comin by the brig o' Dye, At Darlet we a blink did tarry; As day was dawnin in the ...
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