Poets (excerpt) (Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva Poems)
3What can I do, blind and outcastIn a world where all are fathered and sighted,Where passions go over anathemasAs if ...
3What can I do, blind and outcastIn a world where all are fathered and sighted,Where passions go over anathemasAs if ...
Now I have done my work! — which not Jove's ireCan make undone, nor sword, nor time, nor fire.Whene'er that ...
High state and honours to others impart,But give me your heart:That treasure, that treasure alone,I beg for my own.So gentle ...
"Not from the seas does he draw inspiration,Not from the rivers that croon on their bars;But a wide, a world-old ...
Were Princes grac'd with Souls like thine,Princes had still been deem'd divine.Such Merit as we find in thee,First introduc'd Idolatry;When ...
Enraptured thoughts intuitive,Make haste to greet thy page.Melodious with sweet accord,And classic too with age.And ever may the sacred nine,Lead ...
My trembling muse your honour does address,That it's a bold attempt most humbly I confess;If you'll encourage her young fagging ...
Through ages down Time's ceaseless span,An endless, vivid caravan,His mem'ry wends to ever beAn inspiration to the Free.Fearless, black, unlettered ...
_Ah, not for us the Heavens that hold_ GOD'S _message of Promethean fire! The Flame that fell on bards of old To hallow ...
Your Wine, by Southern Suns refin'd,Is a just Emblem of your Mind:Like You, the gen'rous Juice displaysIts Influence a thousand ...
A Heated Fancy, or Imagination,May be mistaken for an Inspiration —True; but is this Conclusion fair to make,That Inspiration must ...
COME , SESTOS and ABYDOS , aid my song;To you these elegiac strains belong.Your griefs with mine, ye wretched cities, ...
EUGENIOTOEMMA,ON HER RETURN FROM THE EAST-INDIE APRIL 15, 1781. START not, dear EMMA ...
Is it illusion? or does there a spirit from perfecter ages, Here, even yet, amid loss, change, and corruption abide? ...
In that soft season, when descending show'rsCall forth the greens, and wake the rising flow'rs;When op'ning buds salute the welcome ...
All night in slumber deep the armies lay: But, while the eastern sky with first faint beam Yet dimly reddened; ...
LAND of departed fame! whose classic plains Have proudly echo'd to immortal strains; Whose hallow'd soil hath given the great ...
The poet hath a realm within, and throne,And in his own soul singeth his lament.A comer often in the world ...
THERE'S a mansion old 'mid the hills of the west,So old, that men know not by whom it was built;But ...
ORIGIN OF THE SERPENT.Ahti, living on the island,Near the Kauko-point and harbor,Plowed his fields for rye and barley,Furrowed his extensive ...
I.The times are changed, and gone the dayWhen the high heavenly land,Though unbeheld, quite near them lay,And men could understand.The ...
O fils du Mincius, je te salue, ? toi Par qui le dieu des arts fut roi du peuple-roi! Et ...
Far otherwise, within the Median camp, Had passed the changeful night. In dreamless sleep, Three portions had gone by: but, ...
In boundless mercy, the Redeemer left,The bosom of his Father, and assumedA servant's form, though he had reigned a king,In ...
On the morning of May,Ere the children had entered my gateWith their wreaths and mechanical lay,A metal ding-dong of the ...
DISPOSED to wed, e'en while you hasten, stay;There's great advantage in a small delay:Thus Ovid sang, and much the wise ...
THE SWEETNESSE OF RETIREMENT,OR The Happinesse of a Private Life.The Segregation.THE ARGUMENT. True Blisse! Thou know'st but Few, to Few ...
Resplendent as on that great morn he rose, When, from the inmost depth of heaven's immense, The bright eternal solitude ...
LOUISATOEMMA,HER FRIEND IN THE EAST-INDIES.THEE EMMA , four slow-circling years have seenPress, with thy pensive foot, Savannas green;Seen thee, with ...
'Twas on the morning of that fateful day When Cyrus met on Thymbra's spacious plain The mighty host by wealthy ...
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