The Rubaiyat Of Ohow Dryyam; With Apologies To Omar (J. L. Duff Poems)
IWail! for the Law has scattered into flightThose Drinks that were our sometime dear Delight;And still the Morals-tinkers plot and ...
IWail! for the Law has scattered into flightThose Drinks that were our sometime dear Delight;And still the Morals-tinkers plot and ...
Creator, Saviour, strengthening Guide,Now on Thy mercy's ocean wideFar out of sight we seem to glide.Help us, each hour, with ...
YOUR face, my boy, when six months old,We propped you laughing in a chair,And the sun-artist caught the goldWhich rippled ...
ASK you, "What charms first chain'd my heart,"And held me from the world apart,"Made young ambition's turmoil cease,"And blest me ...
The morning mist is cleared away, Yet still the face of Heaven is grey,Nor yet this autumnal breeze has stirred the ...
Saw yo that lass wi' her wicked een? That's awr Annie.Shoo's th' pet o'th' haase, we call her 'queen,'Shoo's th' bonniest ...
'Twas not satiety-disgust- That led a wanderer forth to roam, To look for hearts of firmer trust, Or brighter eyes-thus far from home; 'Twas ...
MY brigantine!Just in thy mould and beauteous in thy form,Gentle in roll and buoyant on the surge,Light as the sea-fowl ...
HE came unlook'd for, undesir'd,A sunrise in the northern sky,More than the brightest dawn admir'd,To shine and then forever fly.His ...
In gravest toils, at war with phantasy,Nine years, nine mortal years, have swiftly past,Since my then youthful Muse unfolded lastHer ...
To every class we have a School assign'd,Rules for all ranks and food for every mind:Yet one there is, that ...
EDWARD SHORE.Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou light divine!Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine!Oft will the body's weakness ...
On the morning of May,Ere the children had entered my gateWith their wreaths and mechanical lay,A metal ding-dong of the ...
Till all sweet gums and juices flow, Till the blossom of blossoms blow, The long hours go and come and ...
I VERSE a Settler's Tale of the old times,-One told me by our friend, the kindly sage,Old Egremont, who then ...
Canadian farmers came oft to the little green cottage,To see their new neighbors and hear them tell over their troubles.The ...
Back on the wrong line, that was all, Back in the morning, dusky and drear,Simple enough such a thing you ...
SPRINGAcross the street, across the grass,Across my life I watch her pass.No pure star on a dusky heightHath eyes more ...
(Outward Bound)AWAY, away she plunges With her white sails o'er her spread,Like the summer clouds that gather On ...
It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, Truth is so: That, howsoe'er I stray and range, Whate'er ...
In the same way that the mindless diamond keeps one spark of the planet's early fires trapped forever in its ...
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