How pleasant to know Mr. Lear (Edward Lear Poem)
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear, Who has written such volumes of stuff. Some think him ill-tempered and queer, But ...
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear, Who has written such volumes of stuff. Some think him ill-tempered and queer, But ...
The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From ...
for C. G. Macdonald, 1956-2006 Charlie, sunrise is a three-legged mongrel dog, going deaf, already blind in one eye, answering ...
They are rhymes rudely strung with intent less Of sound than of words, In lands where bright blossoms are scentless, ...
(This fine poem is given by Goethe amongst a small collection of what he calls Loge (Lodge), meaning thereby Masonic ...
How can you say earth should give me joy? Each thing born is my burden; I cannot succeed with all ...
By way of a vanished bridge we cross this river as a cloud of lifted snow would ascend a mountain. ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
His Bill is clasped -- his Eye forsook -- His Feathers wilted low -- The Claws that clung, like lifeless ...
Resembles Life what once was held of Light, Too ample in itself for human sight ? An absolute Self--an element ...
Well hast thou spoken, and yet, not taught A feeling strange or new; Thou hast but roused a latent thought, ...
WHEN biting Boreas, fell and dour, Sharp shivers thro' the leafless bow'r; When Phoebus gies a short-liv'd glow'r, Far south ...
THE WINTRY west extends his blast, And hail and rain does blaw; Or the stormy north sends driving forth The ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
Open little box We kiss your bottom and cover Keyhole and key The whole world lies crumpted in you It ...
Of all who hail thy presence as the morning- Of all to whom thine absence is the night- The blotting ...
Touch it: it won't shrink like an eyeball, This egg-shaped bailiwick, clear as a tear. Here's yesterday, last year --- ...
I think that I shall never know Why I am thus, and I am so. Around me, other girls inspire ...
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
I. My face resembles your face less and less each day. When I was young no one mistook whose child ...
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