London Voluntaries IV: Out of the Poisonous East (William Ernest Henley Poem)
Out of the poisonous East, Over a continent of blight, Like a maleficent Influence released From the most squalid cellerage ...
Out of the poisonous East, Over a continent of blight, Like a maleficent Influence released From the most squalid cellerage ...
(The 110th anniversary of the completion of the "Decline and Fall" at the same hour and place) A spirit seems ...
Good Father!. 'Twas an eve in middle June, And war was waged anew By great Napoleon, who for years had ...
Do I really love you? So let me guess, you'll think I'm easy prey if I say, okay I do ...
'Tis morning; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires th' horizon: while the clouds, That crowd away before the ...
Come, my darling, let us dance To the moon that beckons us To dissolve our love in trance Heedless of ...
Come, my darling, let us dance To the moon that beckons us To dissolve our love in trance Heedless of ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; "Good speed!" cried ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
When you entered the workshop, I was already here. How many statues, and torsos, and heads ! Like remains of ...
The air heaving like a wounded fish, breathing through its purplish sandy gills, letting in the salty gale, fluttering its ...
I have heard about the civilized, the marriages run on talk, elegant and honest, rational. But you and I are ...
Humans are flown, or fall; humans can't fly. We're down with the gravity-stemmers, rare, thick-boned, often basso. Most animals above ...
Between the rice swamps and the fields of tea I met a sacred elephant, snow-white. Upon his back a huge ...
Said a Sov'reign to a Note, In the pocket of my coat, Where they met in a neat purse of ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
"No water so still as the dead fountains of Versailles." No swan, with swart blind look askance and gondoliering legs, ...
A little colt - broncho, loaned to the farm To be broken in time without fury or harm, Yet black ...
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