Trivia ; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London : Book III (John Gay Poems)
Of Walking the Streets by Night.O Trivia, goddess, leave these low abodes,And traverse o'er the wide ethereal roads,Celestial queen, put ...
Of Walking the Streets by Night.O Trivia, goddess, leave these low abodes,And traverse o'er the wide ethereal roads,Celestial queen, put ...
For the Sovereignty of the Island of Barbados.WHERE high Olympus lifts his head in clouds,And his majestic form in darkness ...
'Thus do the generations of the earth Go to the grave and issue from the womb, Surviving still the imperishable change That renovates ...
If heaven has into being deign'd to callThy light, O Liberty! to shine on all;Bright intellectual Sun! why does thy ...
Army of Northern Virginia, army of legend,Who were your captains that you could trust them so surely?Who were your battle-flags?Call ...
THE ARGUMENT OF THE FIRST CANTOSir Hudibras his passing worth,The manner how he sallied forth;His arms and equipage are shown;His ...
XLVI'Sir King,' quoth she, 'my name Clorinda hight,My fame perchance has pierced your ears ere now,I come to try my ...
Tomorrow will be your last day here. Someone is speaking:A familiar voice, speaking again at all of us.And beyond the ...
I. ANNISQUAM Old days, old ways, old homes beside the sea; Old gardens with old-fashioned flowers aflame, Poppy, petunia, and many a name Of many ...
I will not build on yonder mount;And, should you call me to account,Consulting with myself, I findIt was no levity ...
Whenas the nightingale chanted her vespers,And the wild forester couched on the ground,Venus invited me in th' evening whispersUnto a ...
WHENE'ER with pitying eye I viewEach operative sot in town.I smile to think how wondrous fewGet drunk who study at ...
THESE were my friends; Strachey, you did not know them,For they were simple, unaspiring men ;No ordinary wind of chance ...
AT THE DINNER TO THE PRESIDENT,BOSTON, JUNE 26, 1877How to address him? awkward, it is trueCall him "Great Father," as ...
With her soft face half turned to me, Like an arrested moonbeam, she Stood in the cirque of that deep tree. I took ...
"Tis strange indeed to hear us plead For selling and for buyingWhen yesterday we said: "Away With all good things but dying."The ...
O THE sad day!When friends shall shake their heads, and sayOf miserable me--'Hark, how he groans!Look, how he pants for ...
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!Quenched youth, and is that thy ...
Lo, in the sanctuaried East,Day, a dedicated priestIn all his robes pontifical exprest,Lifteth slowly, lifteth sweetly,From out its Orient tabernacle ...
IIn the Indian dawnMany a long, voluminous fold,Vicious blue and viscous gold,Twenty living feet of hell,Glides a snake into the ...
O Socrat?s plains de philosophie,Seneque en meurs, Auglius en pratique,Ovides grans en ta po?trie,Bri?s en parler, saiges en rethorique . ...
A's Aristides, or Gladstone the Good; B is Lord B., whom I'd crush if I could. C are Conservatives, full ...
VILone echoes from the dim cloud-covered shore Of Death are booming in my throbbing brain. I hear the rustle of ...
Comfort the sorrowful with watchful eyesIn silence, for the tongue cannot avail.Vex not his wounds with rhetoric, nor the staleWorn ...
The loud, apt epithet, applying sure;The dim-drawn image, artfully obscure;The perfect stanza, framed of words as choiceAnd round as pearls, ...
They have Chiseled on my stone the words: 'His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him That ...
For more than thirty years we hadn't met. I remembered the bright query of your face, That single-minded look,intense and ...
Help for a patriot distressed, a spotless spirit hurt, Help for an honourable clan sore trampled in the dirt! From ...
When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable ...
For me, the naked and the nude (By lexicographers construed As synonyms that should express The same deficiency of dress ...
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