Trivia ; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London : Book III (John Gay Poems)
Of Walking the Streets by Night.O Trivia, goddess, leave these low abodes,And traverse o'er the wide ethereal roads,Celestial queen, put ...
Of Walking the Streets by Night.O Trivia, goddess, leave these low abodes,And traverse o'er the wide ethereal roads,Celestial queen, put ...
Ovid's TristiaFreely RenderedGo, little book, make haste away,Go to the joyful victory seat.I go not with you, I must stay,For ...
IFirst LoveTHOUGH nurtured like the sailing moonIn beauty's murderous brood,She walked awhile and blushed awhileAnd on my pathway stoodUntil I ...
Oh! the image and the fable of the Sphynx! What lessons do they teach, What sermons do they preachOf the riddle and ...
THEY glare-those stony eyes! That in the fierce sun-rays Showered from these burning skies, Through untold centuriesHave kept their sleepless and unwinking gaze. ...
Yellowish-grey sand, soft at the top, hard, grating below… sand withoutend, where-ever one looks.And above this sandy desert, above this ...
Sphinx was a monster that would eatWhatever stranger she could get,Unless his ready wit disclosedThe subtile riddle she proposed.OEdipus was ...
You are but millions. Our unnumbered nationsAre as the sands upon the sounding shore.We are the Scythians! We are the ...
MESSENGER Now at the Seventh Gate the seventh chief, Thy proper mother's son, I will announce, What ...
CHLORINDA in the slipping gown Unblushingly parades her soul For clinical inspection as Example of the Sapphic r?le;While Doris shudders ...
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
I When I considered it too closely, when I wore it like an element and smelt it like water, Life ...
The only thing I miss about Los Angeles is the Hollywood Freeway at midnight, windows down and radio blaring bearing ...
It will seem strange, no more this range on range Of opening hopes and happenings. Strange to be One's name ...
(From Oedipus at Colonus) Chorus. Come praise Colonus' horses, and come praise The wine-dark of the wood's intricacies, The nightingale ...
Overcome -- O bitter sweetness, Inhabitant of the soft cheek of a girl -- The rich man and his affairs, ...
A woman who loves a woman is forever young. The mentor and the student feed off each other. Many a ...
Like Oedipus I am losing my sight. LIke Judas I have done my wrong. Their punishment is over; the shame ...
A woman who loves a woman is forever young. The mentor and the student feed off each other. Many a ...
Blameless as daylight I stood looking At a field of horses, necks bent, manes blown, Tails streaming against the green ...
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