The Golden Legend: Prologue & 1. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
THE SPIRE OF STRASBURG CATHEDRAL.Night and storm. LUCIFER, with the Powers of theAir, trying to tear down the Cross. _Lucifer._ HASTEN! ...
THE SPIRE OF STRASBURG CATHEDRAL.Night and storm. LUCIFER, with the Powers of theAir, trying to tear down the Cross. _Lucifer._ HASTEN! ...
A JOURNAL.DEDICATED TO MY FELLOW-TRAVELLERS IN AUGUST, 1858.Wise and polite,--and if I drewTheir several portraits, you would ownChaucer had no ...
CAME in my full youth to the midnight cavenerves ringing; and this thing I did alone.Wanting my fulness and not ...
Farm boys wild to coupleWith anything with soft-wooded treesWith mounds of earth moundsOf pinestraw will keep themselves offAnimals by legends of their own:In ...
Now this is very serious, and should be understoodHere is a moral being that is influenced by food!For everything I ...
'Of course,' I said, 'we cannot hope to findWhat we are looking for in anyone;They glitter, maybe, but are not ...
Bums, on waking,Do not always find themselvesIn gutters with water running over their legsAnd the pillow of the curbstoneTurning hard ...
Come all ye young teetotallers—Come with us while we goTo fight with old king Alcohol,A brave and mortal foe.Then rouse, ...
Drifting before the tempter's power,This piteous wreck in horror's hourOn dark perdition's rock was driven!Let groaning earth and righteous heavenSum ...
It was the twilight of the iguana:From a rainbowing battlement,a tongue like a javelinlunging in verdure;an ant heap treading the ...
In Praise of Alcohol Of vintage wine I am a lover;To drink deep would be my delight;If 'twere not for ...
Once in the Museum We seen a little roseIn a jar of alcohol — You turns up your nose:"That's the way people ...
Vocat aestus in umbram Nemesianus Es. IV. E. P. Ode pour l'?lection de son s?pulchre For three years, out of ...
Perched on a dead volcanic pile,Now charted as a submerged peak,Near to a moon-washed coral isle,A hundred leagues from Mozambique,Three ...
The four winds of earth, the North, South, East, and West,Shrieked and groaned, sobbed and wailed, like the soul of ...
Once over the ocean in distant lands,In an age long past, were two hostile bands—Two armies of men, both brave, ...
In the silent midnight watches,When the earth was clothed in gloom,And the grim and awful darknessCrept unbidden to my room—On ...
From everything a little remained.From my fear. From your disgust.From stifled cries. From the rosea little remained.A little remained of ...
There's a terrible steed that rests not night nor day,But onward and onward, for ever away,Through hamlet, through village, through ...
I sleep a lot and read St. Thomas AquinasOr The Death of God (that's a Protestant book).To the right the ...
Ho! for the day in the whole year the brightest!Long may it live in the heart of the nation!Long may ...
I saw a youth, one of God's favored few,Crowned with beauty, and talents, and health;He had climbed the steep pathway, ...
We will go no more to Shaemus, at the Nip, for sly innuendo and an Oporto Flip, the rough but ...
I called to the wind of the Winter,As he sped like a steed on his way,"Oh! rest for awhile on ...
To J. J. H., Of KentuckyGathering brands from the burning,Plucking them out of the fire,Lifting the sheep that have wandered,Out ...
We are younger in years! Yes, that is true;But in some things we are older than you.For instance, you sometimes ...
AIR—"O SUSANNAH!"Ye soldiers in the temperance cause,Our work is but begun.Oh! sit not down in idlenessAnd think the field is ...
If you saw a lionNot within a cage,Would you tease and fret himTill he roared in rage?Would you tempt his ...
Brothers, what are we to thinkWhen we muse upon strong drink? Is it bad or is it good? Is it ...
Fu IFu I loved the high cloud and the hill,Alas, he died of alcohol.Li PoAnd Li Po also died drunk.He ...
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