Pompeii (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
A Poem Which Obtained the Chancellor's Medal at the Cambridge Commencement, July 1819.Oh! land to Memory and to Freedom dear,Land ...
A Poem Which Obtained the Chancellor's Medal at the Cambridge Commencement, July 1819.Oh! land to Memory and to Freedom dear,Land ...
'Twas Athens first, the glorious in name,That whilom gave to hapless sons of menThe sheaves of harvest, and re-ordered life,And ...
Dread phantom, with pale finger on thy lips, Who dost unclose the awful doors for each, That ope but once, and are ...
CAN it be! of stars the star,Do I press thee to my heart?In the night of distance far,What deep gulf, ...
How many times do I love thee, dear?Tell me how many thoughts there beIn the atmosphereOf a new-fall'n year,Whose white ...
Willow's branches:Blue and twisted threads.Time and again, in springThe ruffled flowersHave unravelled. (Ki no Tsurayuki)
As down the circling wave they glide,Thus spoke at length the Elfin guide:"My friend, behold the favoured coast,"Where ...
Now, here is a tale of the Glugs of Gosh, In the end of the year umteen;Of the Glugs of ...
The poet cried, ' I am obsessed, * And out of joint I find the times ; Silent the Muse ...
He reached the graveyard, - grass, death, oblivion,- He who had noticed how the world goes on. It must have ...
The mahogany table-top you smashed Had been the broad plank top Of my mother's heirloom sideboard- Mapped with the scars ...
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
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