In Bohemia (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Ha! My dear! I'm back again-- Vendor of Bohemia's wares! Lordy! How it pants a man Climbing up those awful stairs! Well, I've made ...
Ha! My dear! I'm back again-- Vendor of Bohemia's wares! Lordy! How it pants a man Climbing up those awful stairs! Well, I've made ...
He stands storm-browed, imperial, chief Of all Rome's gladiators; brave Beyond all others; fearless in belief, A captive--but no slave.His brow is like ...
OUR thanks to you, great Sultan ! You have turnedArmenia to a chaos of hewn stone;Daily by myriads you have ...
This world is driven by two contending powers--Love, that coerceth Heaven to dwell with dust,And that dire pledge of Hell's ...
DEFEATED! but never disheartened!Repulsed! but unconquered in will,Upon dreary discomfitures buildingHer virtue's strong battlements still,The soul, through the siege of ...
TO David Garrick, Esq;——— Ridiculum acriFortius ac melius magnas plerumque secat res. HoracePreface:The Author begs Leave to premise, that in ...
MISFORTUNE'S stings transfix the purest heart,And souls, unknown to guilt, with anguish smart.Not virtue can secure the good man's state,Nor ...
A tall brave man of gray three score,The sable columns rode before,The knightliest of the knightly throng,The bravest of the ...
The blessed damozel leaned outFrom the gold bar of Heaven;Her eyes were deeper than the depthOf waters stilled at even;She ...
I"There was war in Heaven" (Rev. xii. 7)Surely 'twas hell, not heaven, where first was war, Where first infernal ...
It is not over yet-the fightWhere those immortal dreamers failed.They stormed the citadels of night,And the night praised them-and prevailed.So ...
That Garden of sedate PhilosophyOnce flourished, fenced from passion and mishap,A shining spot upon a shaggy map;Where mind and body, ...
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