The Dreams That Came True (Jean Ingelow Poems)
I saw in a vision once, our mother-sphere The world, her fixed foredooméd oval tracing,Rolling and rolling on and resting never, While ...
I saw in a vision once, our mother-sphere The world, her fixed foredooméd oval tracing,Rolling and rolling on and resting never, While ...
SCENE I.-- Adam and Eve.Oh, my beloved companion!Oh thou of my existence,The very heart and soul!Hast thou, with such excess ...
This extract from the Ramayana has been edited by M. Chezy, with a free translation into French prose by M. Bournouf, ...
One after one the stars have risen and set,Sparkling upon the hoarfrost on my chain:The Bear, that prowled all night ...
I.-Peter MichaelovIt was Peter the Barbarian put an apron in his bagAnd rolled up the honoured bundle that Australians call ...
I, Louis Marin, mariner, born on the Breton coast, Must pass from earth away, And, because wild remorse Pursues me--is my curse, My guilty ...
HENRY,AGED EIGHT YEARS.Yellow leaves, how fast they flutter—woodland hollows thickly strewing, Where the wan October sunbeams scantly in the mid-day win,While ...
FATE AND SYMPATHY."NE'ER have I seen the market and streets so thoroughly empty!Still as the grave is the town, clear'd ...
The hills have on their royal robes Of purple and of gold, And over their tops the autumn clouds In heaps are onward ...
1.I went out into the night of quiet stars;I looked up at the wheeling heavens, at the mysterious firmament;I thought ...
"Oh, dear, with the just unfolded tender leaflets of Mango trees as his incisive arrows, and with shining strings of ...
The verge of Creation. Enter Werner and Spirit.Werner.We have outtravelled light and sound:The harmonies that pealed around us, asThrough yon ...
Most unpleasantly adjacent to the haunts of lower orders Stood a 'terrace' in the city when the current year began,And a ...
In a somer sesun, whon softe was the sonn{.e},I schop me into a shroud, as I a scheep wer{.e};In habite ...
"Oh, dear with best thighs, heart-stealing is this environ with abundantly grown stacks of rice and their cobs, or with ...
I.A dancing shape, an image gay,To haunt, to startle, and waylay.And yet a Woman, still and bright,With something of an ...
("Old Lucia", who for many years walked back and forth, every day and inall weathers, between Azzano and Menaggio, a ...
No song is this of leaf and bird,And gracious waters flowing;I'm sick at heart, for I have heardBig Billy Vickers ...
Let me talk of years evanished, let me harp upon the timeWhen we trod these sands together, in our boyhood's ...
(To J.S. and A.W.S.)In entering the town, where the bright riverShrinks in its white stone bed, old thoughts returnOf how ...
'Tis the song of many husbands, and you all must understandThat you cannot call me coward now that women rule ...
I bow down at the feet of the wish-fulfilling Guru.Pray vouchsafe me your grace in bestowing beneficial food,Pray make me ...
Without knowing my number,enclosed by walls and borders,I walk around with a prisoner's moonand perpetual shadow chained to my ankle.Living ...
Deadlier balls than North or SouthThrow from cannon's blazing mouth,Everywhere appal my sight—Three in number—golden, bright."All that glitters is not ...
Of the many men whom I am, whom we are,I cannot settle on a single one.They are lost to me ...
HOW bright this weird autumnal eve--While the wild twilight clings around,Clothing the grasses every-where,With scarce a dream of sound!The high ...
The speckled sky is dim with snow,The light flakes falter and fall slow;Athwart the hill-top, rapt and pale,Silently drops a ...
Ye morning-glories, ring in the gale your bells,And with dew water the walk's dust for the burden-bearing ants:Ye swinging spears ...
There was an ant, a spinster ant, Whose virtues were so many That she became intolerant Of those who hadn't any: She had a ...
Just before the bright cloud the Saviour received,When about to return to his father in Heaven;His mission accomplished, his work ...
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