Lines Written in August (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
The day of tumult, strife, defeat, was o'er;Worn out with toil, and noise, and scorn, and spleen,I slumbered, and in ...
The day of tumult, strife, defeat, was o'er;Worn out with toil, and noise, and scorn, and spleen,I slumbered, and in ...
THOU loveliest far of all the Heavenly Train!Thou bright attendant on Night's solemn reign!In whom created Beauty's charms combine,With excellence ...
ANTARCTIC isle! thy mountains riseAll dimly o'er the western main;But gladly I regale my eyesWith the bless'd sight of land ...
Perspective never withers from their eyes;They keep that docile edict of the SpringThat blends March with August Antarctic skies:These are ...
A MIGHTY theatre of snow and fire,Girt with perpetual Winter, and sublimeBy reason of that lordly solitudeWhich dwells for ever ...
On the snow-line of the summit stood the Spaniard's English slave;And the frighted condor westward flew afar—-Where the torch of ...
His soul extracted from the public sink,For discord born he splasht around his ink;In scandal foremost, as by scandal fed,He ...
RELENTLESS Winter, hence away!Collect thy stormy bands and fly:Thy chilling frost, and snow, and hail,And the piercing northern gale:We wish ...
Horace: Book II, Elegy 2'Liber eram et vacuo meditabar vivere lecto--'I was free. I thought that I had enteredLove's Antarctic ...
_Under the Disaster of the Second Manassas_They take no shame for dark defeat While prizing yet each victory won,Who fight for ...
IShe was spoken off Saint Vincent, outward bound . . .Some lumber-laden barque from Puget Sound,Heaving her sodden deck-load through ...
'ARF a pint for me, old party -- thank'ee, mister -- 'ere's yer 'ealth --'Opes y'll live to be a ...
Down at Devine's Hotel — where night and dayThe noises of the harbour find their way,The endless stir of ships ...
I saw him stand, a Polar man, Cold anger in his frigid eye,Facing it wild, unruly clan Who poised their ...
DICKENS"The only book that the party had was a volume of Dickens. During the six months that they lay in ...
'With cheerless gloom and storm-portending cloudsRude Winter brushes from Antarctic wilds,The front of Heav'n, in murky vapours shrouds,Then bursts his ...
Because some unimportant man In politics talks loud and high,Or some wild, economic plan To lift depression takes his eye,The ...
The creatures of the air are the creatures of creation Birds, bats, flying squirrel, flying fish, cardinals, crow, pelican, penguin, ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
Before those cruel twins whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth, had hunted ...
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