The Borough. Letter I (George Crabbe Poems)
DESCRIBE the Borough--though our idle tribeMay love description, can we so describe,That you shall fairly streets and buildings trace,And all ...
DESCRIBE the Borough--though our idle tribeMay love description, can we so describe,That you shall fairly streets and buildings trace,And all ...
Their father's blessing on their knees they take,And now to Memphis quick advances make,Where safe arriv'd, but fearful of their ...
A harper came over the Danube so wide,And he came into Alaric's hall,And he sang the song of the little ...
Long as unending threads, the long-drawn rainInterminably, with its nails of grey, Athwart the dull grey day, Rakes ...
The way that it came about was this— I was stoker for over two years to Bill,But do as we ...
THE weather had been sultry for a fortnight's time or more, And the shearers had been driving might ...
A Grand attempt some Amazonian DamesContrive whereby to glorify their names,A Ruff for Boston Neck of mud and turfe,Reaching from ...
'Twixt the coastline and the border lay the town of Grog-an'-Grumble In the days before the bushman was a dull ...
OH thou cruel deadly-lovely maiden, Tell me what great sin have I committed, That thou keep'st me to the rack ...
After the Sun comes out How it alters the World -- Waggons like messengers hurry about Yesterday is old -- ...
In the zunsheen of our zummers Wi' the hay time now a-come, How busy wer we out a-vield Wi' vew ...
In the zunsheen of our zummers Wi' the hay time now a-come, How busy wer we out a-vield Wi' vew ...
The Thames nocturne of blue and gold Changed to a Harmony in grey: A barge with ochre-coloured hay Dropt from ...
Through all the pleasant meadow-side The grass grew shoulder-high, Till the shining scythes went far and wide And cut it ...
"Where 'ave you been this week or more, 'Aven't seen you about the war'? Thought perhaps you was at the ...
We have sung the song of the droving days, Of the march of the travelling sheep; By silent stages and ...
Oh, the weary, weary journey on the trek, day after day, With sun above and silent veldt below; And our ...
Sir Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn Beat the English in every wheel and turn, And made them fly in great ...
'Twas in the year of 1849, and on the 20th of February, Lord Gough met and attacked Shere Sing right ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
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