This Momentous Mummery (C J Dennis Poems)
Well, I don't know. Maybe it's quite all right, And maybe it is I who am perverse,Finding in this unedifying ...
Well, I don't know. Maybe it's quite all right, And maybe it is I who am perverse,Finding in this unedifying ...
Things of great worth shall come to passBy true foreknowledge and in fact,-Names worthier than mine in fameAnd words which ...
Many have loved you with lips and fingersAnd lain with you till the moon went out;Many have brought you lover's ...
TRUTH is enough for prose: Calmly it goes To tell just what it knows.For verse, skill will suffice— Delicate, nice ...
As our mother the Frigate, bepainted and fine, Made play for her bully the Ship of the Line; So we, ...
When spring-time flushes the desert grass, Our kafilas wind through the Khyber Pass. Lean are the camels but fat the ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array, A younger brother homeward bent his way, Not much improved, as frequently ...
This house which is lived in resounds with the chorus of voices bound in the press of its generous, unconcealed ...
And you will claim we need more births to keep our population mix in check while nature's truths suggest there ...
Phoebus make haste, the day's too long, be gone, The silent night's the fittest time for moan; But stay this ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
Beneath that loved and celebrated breast, silent, bored really blindly veined, grieves, maybe lives and lets live, passes bets, something ...
You read-what is it, then that you are reading? What music moves so silently in your mind? Your bright hand ...
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap Left by the Holy Quest; and as he sat In hall ...
What puts me in a rage is The sight of cursed cages Where singers of the sky Perch hop instead ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
Frowning, the owl in the oak complained him Sore, that the song of the robin restrained him Wrongly of slumber, ...
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