An Essay on Man: Epistle II (Alexander Pope Poems)
I.Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man.Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle ...
I.Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man.Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle ...
LONG time ago, from Amsterdam a vessel sailed away,-As fair a ship as ever flung aside the laughing spray.Upon the ...
THE ARGUMENT.The camp at great Jerusalem arrives:Clorinda gives them battle, in the breastOf fair Erminia Tancred's love revives,He jousts with ...
Ladies, well I deem, delight In comely tire to move;Soft, and delicate, and bright, Are the robes they love.Silks, where hues alternate ...
The sleds of the childrenMove down the right slope.To the left, hazed in the tumbling air,A thousand lights smudgeWithin the ...
DEAR GOVERNOR, if my skiff might braveThe winds that lift the ocean wave,The mountain stream that loops and swervesThrough my ...
AN inventory clear of all she needs Lamira offers here; Nor does she fear a rigid Cato's frown When she ...
The ox-team and the automobileStood face to face on the long red road,The long red road was narrowAt the turn ...
When thou art gone, the little sunlit shadowsStill may dance, and the flowers nod,And the trees whisper confidently one to ...
The birch tree in winterLeaning over the secret poolIs Narcissus in loveWith the slight white branches,The slim trunk,In the dark ...
ACT V.SCENE I. A Room in Susskind's House. LIEBHAID, CLAIRE, REUBEN.LIEBHAID.The air hangs sultry as in mid-July.Look forth, Claire; moves ...
"Now, scarce three paces measured from the mound,We stumbled on a stationary voice,And 'Stand, who goes?' 'Two from the palace' ...
I.IN the beautiful Castleton Island a mansion of lordly style,Embowered in gardens and lawns, looks over the glimmering bay.In the ...
IFar, far across the desert sands,I hear the camel-bells;Merchants have come from alien lands,With stuffs, and gems, and silken bands,Back ...
All day I heard a humming in my ears. A buzz of many voices, and a throng Of swarming numbers, ...
The birch tree in winterLeaning over the secret poolIs Narcissus in loveWith the slight white branches,The slim trunk,In the dark ...
More than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi, an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after ...
Higher far, Upward, into the pure realm, Over sun or star, Over the flickering Dæmon film, Thou must mount for ...
The birch tree in winter Leaning over the secret pool Is Narcissus in love With the slight white branches, The ...
Now, scarce three paces measured from the mound, We stumbled on a stationary voice, And 'Stand, who goes?' 'Two from ...
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound ...
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