Prelude (George Wither Poems)
(From _The Shepherd's Hunting_)Seest thou not, in clearest days,Oft thick fogs cloud Heaven's rays?And that vapours which do breatheFrom the ...
(From _The Shepherd's Hunting_)Seest thou not, in clearest days,Oft thick fogs cloud Heaven's rays?And that vapours which do breatheFrom the ...
A wind's in the heart of me, a fire's in my heels,I am tired of brick and stone and rumbling wagon-wheels;I ...
The Kitten mews outside the Door,The Cat-bird in the Tree,The Sea-mew mews upon the Shore,The Catfish in the Sea.The Emu ...
RESTORATION OF THE SUN AND MOON.Thus has Fire returned to NorthlandBut the gold Moon is not shining,Neither gleams the silver ...
No Cautions of a Matron, Old and Sage, Young Rattlehead to Prudence cou'd engage; But forth the Offspring of her ...
As bullets come to us they're thin, They're angular, or smooth and fat, Some spiral are, and gimlet in, ...
By Chinese Charley's junk-store, by the Panama Saloon,Where 'longshore loafers lean and spit, at morning, night, and noon, —All among ...
In Memory Of. In Fondest Recollection Of. In Loving Memory Of. In Fond Remembrance. Died in October. Died at Sea. ...
The sounds in the evening Go all through the house, The click ...
The ships that trade foreign, to London they bearTheir cargoes unnumbered both common and rare,Their bales and their gunny-sacks, tea-chests ...
"Teapots and Quails,Snuffers and Snails,Set him a sailingand see how he sails!..Mitres and Beams,Thimbles and Creams,Set him a screamingand hark! ...
Many streets have the citiesNear and far,Underneath the tropic sunAnd Northern star . . .Wide streets and narrow streets,Grim streets ...
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound ...
MORNING and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: "Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, ...
After seeing at Boston the statue of Robert Gould Shaw, killed while storming Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863, at the ...
A WIND'S in the heart of me, a fire's in my heels, I am tired of brick and stone and ...
Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this, with eight stranded whales to look at; ...
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