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 ...
I How fresh the Dartle's little waves that day! A steely silver, underlined with blue, And flashing where the round ...
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some ...
To M. H. WE passed where flag and flower Signalled a jocund throng; We said: "Go to, the hour Is ...
I MARKED her ruined hues, Her custom-straitened views, And asked, "Can there indwell My Amabel?" I looked upon her gown, ...
Good Father!. 'Twas an eve in middle June, And war was waged anew By great Napoleon, who for years had ...
THE sun had wheeled from Grey's to Dammer's Crest, And still I mused on that Thing imminent: At length I ...
HERE in silence the lover fondly mused on his loved one; Gladly he spake to me thus: "Be thou my ...
So often, in my prayers, in the poetry I am given in the words I am sharing The space between ...
The sunset shouted the other night the glory of God the lilies of the valley whispered this morning the glory ...
Of all the opry-houses then obtaining in the West The one which Milton Tootle owned was, by all odds, the ...
I've known ere now an interfering branch Of alder catch my lifted ax behind me. But that was in the ...
Upon the road of my life, Passed me many fair creatures, Clothed all in white, and radiant. To one, finally, ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
A little while, a little while, The weary task is put away, And I can sing and I can smile, ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Spot of my youth! whose hoary branches sigh, Swept by the breeze that fans thy cloudless sky; Where now alone ...
I. You know, we French stormed Ratisbon: A mile or so away, On a little mound, Napoleon Stood on our ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
Now, when the moon slid under the cloud And the cold clear dark of starlight fell, He heard in his ...
Glion?--Ah, twenty years, it cuts All meaning from a name! White houses prank where once were huts. Glion, but not ...
In his cool hall, with haggard eyes, The Roman noble lay; He drove abroad, in furious guise, Along the Appian ...
I thought once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years, Who each one in ...
I thought once how Theocritus had sung Of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years, Who each one in ...
I have in my hands two boxes which God gave me to hold he said, "put all your sorrows in ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
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