Lament for Chaucer (Thomas Hoccleve Poems)
ALLAS! my worthi maister honorable,This landes verray tresor and richesse!Deth by thy deth hath harme irreparableUnto us doon: hir vengeable ...
ALLAS! my worthi maister honorable,This landes verray tresor and richesse!Deth by thy deth hath harme irreparableUnto us doon: hir vengeable ...
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!Of darkness visible so much be ...
Among the numerous fools, by Fate design'd Oft to disturb, and oft divert, mankind, The reading coxcomb is of special ...
Trembling Creation's omnipresent sun,Immanent Harmonist, Whose rhythms run.Alike where midge pursues his swift romance,Or grave stars cluster for their midnight ...
Almightie Lord, who from thy glorious throneSeest and rulest all things ev'n as one:The smallest ant or atome knows thy ...
Whan that Bachus, the myghti lorde,And Juno eke, both by one accorde,Hath sette a-broche of myghti wyne a tone,And after ...
Adressed To Mrs. S.C. ChoateA Persian lady we're informed—This happened long, long years beforeThe Christian era ever dawned,A thousand years, ...
I sit among the hoary trees With Aristotle on my knees And turn with serious hand the pages, Lost in ...
CAESAR did a few things, Horace wrote in style, Good old Plato knew things Very much worth while. Famous Aristotle ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
I have almost been reduced to a homeless pauper. This fatal city, Antioch, has consumed all my money; this fatal ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
I I walk through the long schoolroom questioning; A kind old nun in a white hood replies; The children learn ...
Lavender musk rose from the volume I was reading through, The college crest impressed in gold, tooled gold lettering on ...
No more, my dear, no more these counsels try; Oh, give my passions leave to run their race; Let Fortune ...
No more, my dear, no more these counsels try; Oh, give my passions leave to run their race; Let Fortune ...
This is the greatest thing in North America: Europe is the greatest thing in North America! High in the sky, ...
Obit 23rd April 1616 Is it not strange that on this common date, Two titans of their age, aye of ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky; Contrariwise, my blood runs cold When little boys ...
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