Footsteps (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
On an ebony bed decorated with coral eagles, sound asleep lies Nero -- unconscious, quiet, and blissful; thriving in the ...
On an ebony bed decorated with coral eagles, sound asleep lies Nero -- unconscious, quiet, and blissful; thriving in the ...
Are they clinging to their crosses, F. E. Smith, Where the Breton boat-fleet tosses, Are they, Smith? Do they, fasting, ...
HAIL, sister springs, Parents of silver-footed rills! Ever bubbling things, Thawing crystal, snowy hills! Still spending, never spent; I mean ...
As he writes, without looking at the sea, he feels the tip of his pen begin to tremble. The tide ...
O Lord, my best desire fulfil, And help me to resign Life, health, and comfort to Thy will, And make ...
Sin has undone our wretched race; But Jesus has restored, And brought the sinner face to face With his forgiving ...
I was a grovelling creature once, And basely cleaved to earth: I wanted spirit to renounce The clod that gave ...
Gracious Lord, our children see, By Thy mercy we are free; But shall these, alas! remain Subjects still of Satan's ...
El Arabi! El Arabi! Burn in thy brilliance, mine own! O Beautiful! O Barbarous! Seductive as a serpent is That ...
El Arabi! El Arabi! Burn in thy brilliance, mine own! O Beautiful! O Barbarous! Seductive as a serpent is That ...
Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, This lime-tree bower my prison! I have lost Beauties and feelings, ...
My pensive SARA ! thy soft cheek reclined Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is To sit beside ...
(Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire) My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is ...
Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, This lime-tree bower my prison! I have lost Beauties and feelings, ...
Up this green woodland-ride let's softly rove, And list the nightingale- she dwells just here. Hush ! let the wood-gate ...
You know the brick path in the back of the house, the one you see from the kitchen window, the ...
Her predatory eye, the single feral iris, scans. Her raptor beak, all jagged sharp-edged thrust, juts. Her hard talon, clenched ...
I hold her letter as I stand, Nor break the seal; no need to guess What dainty little female hand ...
Blessed be Thou for all the joy My soul has felt today! O let its memory stay with me And ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
BUT two miles more, and then we rest ! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the ...
The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the ...
Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire Of watching you; and swing me suddenly Into the shade and ...
Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire Of watching you; and swing me suddenly Into the shade and ...
Once I seen a human ruin In a elevator-well. And his members was bestrewin' All the place where he had ...
The Moorish King rides up and down, Through Granada's royal town; From Elvira's gate to those Of Bivarambla on he ...
The Moorish King rides up and down, Through Granada's royal town; From Elvira's gate to those Of Bivarambla on he ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
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