To Margaret (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Maiden of varying mood,Thalia thou hast wooed, Thespis thereafter,Till 'neath thy lyric swayEach heart must tribute pay-- Tears blent with laughter.So in ...
Maiden of varying mood,Thalia thou hast wooed, Thespis thereafter,Till 'neath thy lyric swayEach heart must tribute pay-- Tears blent with laughter.So in ...
Rehearse to me ye sacred Sisters nine:The golden brood of great Apolloes wit,Those piteous plaints and sorrowful sad tine,Which late ...
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!Of darkness visible so much be ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
PROLOGUE. Woe! to the just occasion that compels My verse to satire, when my soul rebels; Must I, unskill'd her ...
Aye, but she?Your other sister and my other soulGrave Silence, lovelierThan the three loveliest maidens, what of her?Clio, not you,Not ...
Fie on these Lydian tunes which blunt our sprightsAnd turne our gallants to Hermaphrodites:Giue me a Doricke touch, whose Semphony,And ...
Read by the poet at The Public Ceremonial of The National Institute of Arts and Letters at Carnegie Hall, New ...
No sooner, FLAVIO, was you gone, But, your Injunction thought upon, ARDELIA took the Pen; Designing to perform the Task,Her ...
I, too, at length discerned great Hercules' energy mighty,— Saw his shade. He himself was not, alas, to be ...
Minstrel, what have you to doWith this man that, after you,Sharing not your happy fate,Sat as England's Laureate?Vainly, in these ...
On being desired to attempt writing a Comedy. WOULD'ST thou then have me tempt the comic sceneOf gay Thalia? used ...
DIvine Thalia strike th'Harmonious Lute, But with a Stroke so Gentle as may sute The silent gliding of the Howers, ...
No sooner, FLAVIO, was you gone, But, your Injunction thought upon, ARDELIA took the Pen; Designing to perform the Task, ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
I, too, at length discerned great Hercules' energy mighty,-- Saw his shade. He himself was not, alas, to be seen. ...
To Jena Woodhouse This way of minutes miserably mixed With their own blinks misunderstood By birds and trees, this eye-born ...
Aye, but she? Your other sister and my other soul Grave Silence, lovelier Than the three loveliest maidens, what of ...
Minstrel, what have you to do With this man that, after you, Sharing not your happy fate, Sat as England's ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
Tell me not what too well I know About the bard of Sirmio. Yes, in Thalia's son Such stains there ...
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