To the Reader of These Sonnets (Michael Drayton Poem)
Into these Loves who but for Passion looks, At this first sight here let him lay them by And seek ...
Into these Loves who but for Passion looks, At this first sight here let him lay them by And seek ...
The heavenly hills of Holland,-- How wondrously they rise Above the smooth green pastures Into the azure skies! With blue ...
If on the closed curtain of my sight My fancy paints thy portrait far away, I see thee still the ...
It pleased the Lord of Angels (praise His name!) To hear, one day, report from those who came With pitying ...
The Auctioneer of Parting His "Going, going, gone" Shouts even from the Crucifix, And brings his Hammer down -- He ...
Captain AJ Shout, VC, MC, MID (& bar), who died at Gallipoli of wounds and was posthumously awarded the VC, ...
Whangaehu waters, hot-spilled from the cauldron of Crater Lake, swirling mud-green from the cup between Tahurangi and Pyramid Peak, sulphurous, ...
It was a fat-tyred 4WD utility hard back, the sort of ute you'd expect a contractor to drive, except it ...
TO the assembled folk At great St. Kavin's spoke Young Brother Amiel on Christmas Eve; I give you joy, my ...
Go thou gentle whispering wind, Bear this sigh; and if thou find Where my cruel fair doth rest, Cast it ...
It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, Truth is so: That, howsoe'er I stray and range, Whate'er ...
It's coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen Square. It's coming from the feel that ...
Since all, that beat about in Nature's range, Or veer or vanish ; why should'st thou remain The only constant ...
Once there came a man Who said, "Range me all men of the world in rows." And instantly There was ...
Far spread the moorey ground a level scene Bespread with rush and one eternal green That never felt the rage ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
At the end of a long-walled garden in a red provincial town, A brick path led to a mulberry- scanty ...
We know where deepest lies the snow, And where the frost-winds keenest blow, O'er every mountain's brow, We long have ...
Come to the banquet -- triumph in your songs! Strike up the chords -- and sing of Victory! The oppressed ...
SOME have won a wild delight, By daring wilder sorrow; Could I gain thy love to-night, I'd hazard death to-morrow. ...
A web of sewer, pipe, and wire connects each house to the others. In 206 a dog sleeps by the ...
It was not when temptation came, Swiftly and blastingly as flame, And seared me white with burning scars; When I ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
I My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have ...
It will seem strange, no more this range on range Of opening hopes and happenings. Strange to be One's name ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
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