Belisarius (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
I am poor and old and blind; The sun burns me, and the wind Blows through the city gate And ...
I am poor and old and blind; The sun burns me, and the wind Blows through the city gate And ...
Out of childhood into manhood Now had grown my Hiawatha, Skilled in all the craft of hunters, Learned in all ...
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
Melibæus. WElcome fair Nymphs, most welcome to this shade, Distemp'ring Heats do now the Plains invade: But you may sit, ...
Con the dead page as 'twere live love: press on! Cold wisdom's words will ease thy track for thee; Aye, ...
ON a rocky peak once sat I early, Gazing on the mist with eyes unmoving; Stretch'd out like a pall ...
[This song was intended to be introduced in a dramatic poem entitled Mahomet, the plan of which was not carried ...
And now it was evening. And Almitra the seeress said, "Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit ...
A mason came forth and said, "Speak to us of Houses." And he answered and said: Build of your imaginings ...
Blood has been harder to dam back than water. Just when we think we have it impounded safe Behind new ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Higher far, Upward, into the pure realm, Over sun or star, Over the flickering Dæmon film, Thou must mount for ...
The heavenly hills of Holland,-- How wondrously they rise Above the smooth green pastures Into the azure skies! With blue ...
Behind faces and gestures We remain mute And spoken words heavy With what we ignore or keep silent Betray us ...
Recite the loves of Narva and Mored The priest of Chalma's triple idol said. High from the ground the youthful ...
Behind faces and gestures We remain mute And spoken words heavy With what we ignore or keep silent Betray us ...
AH! from my eyes the tears unbidden start, Albion! as now thy cliffs (that bright appear Far o'er the wave, ...
Ay! gloriously thou standest there, Beautiful, boundless firmament! That swelling wide o'er earth and air, And round the horizon bent, ...
Away, ye gay landscapes, ye garden of roses! In you let the minions of luxury rove; Restore me to the ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
THOU whom chance may hither lead, Be thou clad in russet weed, Be thou deckt in silken stole, Grave these ...
I heard an angel speak last night, And he said 'Write! Write a Nation's curse for me, And send it ...
LORD BUDDHA, on thy Lotus-throne, With praying eyes and hands elate, What mystic rapture dost thou own, Immutable and ultimate? ...
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