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 ...
You might come here Sunday on a whim. Say your life broke down. The last good kiss you had was ...
O Sacred Providence, who from end to end Strongly and sweetly movest! shall I write, And not of thee, through ...
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on ...
They stand on guard once more in harm's way in hostile lands answering the nation's call on point in the ...
I like a church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul, And on my heart monastic ...
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver, Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc. ...
Your Riches -- taught me -- Poverty. Myself -- a Millionaire In little Wealths, as Girls could boast Till broad ...
To tell the Beauty would decrease To state the Spell demean -- There is a syllable-less Sea Of which it ...
Talk with prudence to a Beggar Of "Potose," and the mines! Reverently, to the Hungry Of your viands, and your ...
'Tis little I -- could care for Pearls -- Who own the ample sea -- Or Brooches -- when the ...
The Road to Paradise is plain, And holds scarce one. Not that it is not firm But we presume A ...
Black granite stretches its harsh, tapering wings up to pedestrian-level grass but sucks me down, here, at the intersection of ...
Praise the good-tempered summer and the red cardinal that jumps like a hot coal off the track. Praise the heavy ...
John Grubby who was short and stout And troubled with religious doubt, Refused about the age of three To sit ...
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
On Tiber's banks, Tiber, whose waters glide In slow meanders down to Gaigra's side; And circling all the horrid mountain ...
Oh how I love Thy holy Word, Thy gracious covenant, O Lord! It guides me in the peaceful way; I ...
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon ...
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
STEER, hither steer your winged pines, All beaten mariners! Here lie Love's undiscover'd mines, A prey to passengers-- Perfumes far ...
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife ...
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife ...
I recall a boil, whereupon as I had to sit, just where, and when I had to, for deadlines. O ...
I TRUTH is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost ...
Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet, Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet! I feel a nameless ...
Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet, Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet! I feel a nameless ...
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