What Sayest Thou, Traveller (Paul Verlaine Poems)
What sayst thou, traveller, of all thou saw'st afar? On every tree hangs boredom, ripening to its fall,Didst gather it, thou ...
What sayst thou, traveller, of all thou saw'st afar? On every tree hangs boredom, ripening to its fall,Didst gather it, thou ...
The world turns mild; democracy, they say,Rounds the sharp knobs of character away,And no great harm, unless at grave expenseOf ...
Not to win thy favor, maiden, not to steal away thy heart,Have I ever sought thy presence, ever stooped to ...
ADDRESSED TO SAMUEL JAMES ARNOLD, Esq.: "Behold, with mild and matron mien, "With sober eye, and brow serene, "October sweep along; "Bright are ...
XIBut when the angry king discovered notWhat guilty hand this sacrilege had wrought,His ireful courage boiled in vengeance hotAgainst the ...
When poets wrote and painters drewAs Nature pointed out the view,Ere Gothic forms were known in GreeceTo spoil the well-proportion'd ...
WHERE streams of light, in golden showers,First fell on long lost Eden's bowers,And music, from the shouting skies,Wandered to Eve's ...
Let pious Damon take his seat,With mincing step and languid smile,And scatter from his 'kerchief sweet,Sabaean odours o'er the aisle;And ...
COMMENCEMENT POEM, WRITTEN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, JUNE, 1876."INTO the balm of the clover,Into the dawn and the dew,Come, ...
Our God who made two lovers in a garden, And smote them separate and set them free, Their four eyes wild for ...
LET this acquaint my dearest friend,That I to make a glove intend,Or pair of gloves; and, therefore, IFor your directions ...
I ain't no verse-'og. When I busts in songAn' fills the air wiv choonful melerdy,I likes fer uvver coves to ...
I.Peradventure of old, some bard in Ionian Islands, Walking alone by the sea, hearing the wash of the waves,Learned the secret ...
IF once in love, you'll soon invention findAnd not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind;The youngest 'prentice, when he ...
What sorrows in my soul, O God! arise,The vast perverseness of mankind to see?Shou'd any strive to lead them to ...
I was born in Boston in1949. I never wantedthis fact to be known, infact I've spent the betterhalf of my ...
WHO DIED JAN. 21, 1800. Sweet is the voice of Friendship to the ear, Sweet is Affection's mildly-beaming eye, Sweet the applause which ...
How happy you! who varied joys pursue;And every hour presents you something new!Plans, schemes, and models, all Palladio's art,For six ...
To thee, O father of the stately peaks,Above me in the loftier light — to thee,Imperial brother of those awful ...
Fair as some sea-child, in her coral bower,Decked with the rare, rich treasures of the deep;Mild as the spirit of ...
I.Summer was dead and Autumn was expiring,And infant Winter laughed upon the landAll cloudlessly and cold;--when I, desiringMore in this ...
Ye virgins! fond to be admired,With mighty rage of conquest fired,And universal sway;Who heave th' uncover'd bosom high,And roll a ...
How shall I praise Thee, Lord of light?How all thy generous love declare?Though earth is veil'd in shades of night,Thy ...
WHEN last we parted--thy frail hand in mine--Above us smiled September's passionless sky,And touched by fragrant airs, the hillside pineThrilled ...
With Charles the Fifth art thou acquainted, reader?Of Ferdinand and Isabel the grandson,In ages past of Europe's realms file leader,Among ...
O LIFE, that breathest in all sweet thingsThat bud and bloom upon the earth,That fillest the sky with songs and ...
_To Her Majesty the Queen, May 11th, 1886_Beloved Queen of Britain's sea-girt Isles,And lands o'er which the grand Sun ever ...
THOU lovest me no more. It needs not wordsTo tell me thou art altered now. Alas!I mark it well in ...
My Saviour, can it ever beThat I should gain by losing Thee?The watchful mother tarries nigh,Though sleep have closed her ...
In one dread night our city saw, and sigh'd,Bow'd to the dust, the Drama's tower of prideIn one short hour ...
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