Logogriph (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
For man's support I came at first from earth,But man perverts the purpose of my birth;Beneath his plastic hand new ...
For man's support I came at first from earth,But man perverts the purpose of my birth;Beneath his plastic hand new ...
Let us not talk philosophy, drop it, Jeanne. So many words, so much paper, who can stand it. I told ...
Some have the gift of song and some possess the gift of silver speech,Some have the gift of leadership and ...
We are as mendicants who waitAlong the roadside in the sun.Tatters of yesterday and shredsOf morrow clothe us every one.And ...
A. M. M.BEHOLD her sitting in the sunThis lovely April morn,As eager with the breath of lifeAs daffodils new-born!A priestess ...
They left the vine-wreathed cottage and the mansion on the hill,The houses in the busy streets where life is never ...
Nay, Mr Speaker, let the ideal stay, The picture that voters have in mindOf Solons in debate far leagues away ...
I gazed at the azure-hued mantle of heaven, The measureless depths of ethereal space;I gazed at the clouds, so invisibly ...
Though some may yearn for titles great, and seek the frills of fame,I do not care to have an extra ...
There are wolves in the next room waitingWith heads bent low, thrust out, breathingAt nothing in the dark; between them ...
Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart,Naught is all else to me, save that Thou art.Thou my best ...
Before the urchin well could go,She stole the whiteness of the snow;And, more that whiteness to adorn,She stole the blushes ...
When any man of greater pow'r you seeInvested with the robes of dignity,In honour's gaudiest, gayest liveryDreaded by all, whose ...
Yarrawonga by herselfLived too long upon a shelf She a stolid farmer's wife. Far remote from modern strifeDrowsily beside her ...
There were companions on the march, as every soldier found,With ceaseless zeal in digging deep in every spot around,And though ...
The firste stock-father of gentleness,What man desireth gentle for to be,Must follow his trace, and all his wittes dress,Virtue to ...
Mohay apnay hi rung mein rung lay,Tu to saaheb mera Mehboob-e-Ilaahi;Mohay apnay hi rung mein..Humri chundariya, piyaa ki pagariya,Woh to ...
My native city rose from sea,Its littered frontiers wet and dark.Time came too soon to disembarkAnd rain like buckshot sprayed ...
"Here room and kingly silence keep Companionship in state austere; The dignity of death is here, The large, lone vastness ...
And every year a world my will did deem, Till lo! at last, to Court now am I come, A ...
Then, brother, you would never think me vainOr rude, if I should mention dignity;Think little of it. Dignity's the stainOf ...
I like a 'cavalier Frances'And a Catalonian dame;The courtesy of the Genoese,And Castilian dignity;The Provence songs my ears to please,And ...
What's the best life for a man? --Never to have been born, sings the choros, and the next best Is ...
Nature teaches us our tongue again And the swift sentences came pat. I came Into cool night rescued from rainy ...
For Heinrich Blucher and Hannah Arendt Composed in the Tower before his execution These moving verses, and being brought at ...
As a child, they could not keep me from wells And old pumps with buckets and windlasses. I loved the ...
heeley (sheffield) autumn 1988 dodging the broken bottles dog-shit the pavement spew i wheel my young son matthew through the ...
in the wares before you spread, Types of all things may be read. 'NEATH the shadow Of these bushes, On ...
A mason came forth and said, "Speak to us of Houses." And he answered and said: Build of your imaginings ...
Part One The power of charity sows deep in my heart, and I reap and gather the wheat in bundles ...
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