The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Omar Khayyam Poem)
I. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
I. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
Once, after long-drawn revel at The Mermaid, He to the overbearing Boanerges Jonson, uttered (if half of it were liquor, ...
O SORROW! Why dost borrow The natural hue of health, from vermeil lips?-- To give maiden blushes To the white ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some ...
Howe's Final version Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the ...
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. Psalm 121 On a hillside scattered with ...
And he said, If the Lord do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or ...
What pleasures have great princes? These: to know Themselves reputed mad with pride or power; To speak few words -- ...
And then they pretend like owls With marble eyes and wizened stupidity I do not know why they cannot perceive ...
THE tale of the Count our glad song shall record Who had in this castle his dwelling, Where now ye ...
Some have heard of "fuzzy logic", that "powerful problem-solving methodology (blah, blah, blah) ." (no, not just what Shanequa or ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Talk to me of love with wonder in your eyes, of limber magic flying through the veiling air and soft-edged ...
"Zipless sex" one cynic called this festival of fornication, this celebration of new-found sexual strength and urbane honesty, of sex ...
When first the fiery-mantled sun His heavenly race begun to run; Round the earth and ocean blue, His children four ...
The Saviour hides His face; My spirit thirsts to prove Renew'd supplies of pardoning grace, And never-fading love. The favor'd ...
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
MY future will not copy fair my past On any leaf but Heaven's. Be fully done Supernal Will ! I ...
1.1 "What is the price of Experience? do men buy it for a song? 1.2 Or wisdom for a dance ...
For some we loved, the loveliest and the best That from His vintage rolling Time hath pressed, Have drunk the ...
WHEN by Zeus relenting the mandate was revoked, Sentencing to exile the bright Sun-God, Mindful were the ploughmen of who ...
Look off, dear Love, across the sallow sands, And mark yon meeting of the sun and sea, How long they ...
Oft seems the Time a market-town Where many merchant-spirits meet Who up and down and up and down Cry out ...
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