The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam Of Naishapur (Edward Fitzgerald Poem)
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I ...
You've 'eard 'ow young Albert Ramsbottom, In the Zoo up at Blackpool one year, With a stick and 'orse's 'ead ...
I'll tell of Canute, King of England, A native of Denmark was he, His hobbies was roving and raiding And ...
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The ...
I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...
Well then; the promis'd hour is come at last; The present age of wit obscures the past: Strong were our ...
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver, Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc. ...
In the pleasant time of Pentecost, By the little river Kyll, I followed the angler's winding path Or waded the ...
The land was broken in despair, The princes quarrelled in the dark, When clear and tranquil, through the troubled air ...
If any sink, assure that this, now standing -- Failed like Themselves -- and conscious that it rose -- Grew ...
I had no Cause to be awake -- My Best -- was gone to sleep -- And Morn a new ...
The last Night that She lived It was a Common Night Except the Dying -- this to Us Made Nature ...
"Zipless sex" one cynic called this festival of fornication, this celebration of new-found sexual strength and urbane honesty, of sex ...
The dung was recent, not an event unusual in itself but difficult to explain of cows grazing the other side ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
In heaven, Some little blades of grass Stood before God. "What did you do?" Then all save one of the ...
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
The rain was ending, and light Lifting the leaden skies. It shone upon ceiling and floor And dazzled a child's ...
O race that Cæsar knew, That won stern Roman praise, What land not envies you The laurel of these days? ...
What though the sun had left my sky; To save me from despair The blessed moon arose on high, And ...
Brothers in blood! They who this wrong began To wreck our commonwealth, will rue the day When first they challenged ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits, The dawn, a crimson cataract, burst through the eastern gates, ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
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