Concerning Prayer, And Its Proper Requisites (Rees Prichard Poems)
PUT off thy shoes, ere thou thy God dost greet,Thy ass, before thou sacrificest, bind —Wash, ere the altar thou ...
Poems about askest (21 Poems)
Paradiso: Canto II (Dante Alighieri Poems)
Paradiso Canto 2O Ye, who in some pretty little boat,Eager to listen, have been followingBehind my ship, that singing sails ...
Advice To Prepare Ourselves, Before We Come To Worship God In Public (Rees Prichard Poems)
PULL off thy shoes, and make thy garments white,And sanctify thyself, ere thou dost dareApproach the throne of the dread ...
Fragment IX (James Macpherson Poems)
Thou askest, fair daughter of theisles! whose memory is preservedin these tombs? The memory of Ronnanthe bold, and Connan the ...
My Library (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Shrine of my mind, my Library!Each morn I greet thee with delight,When, soul-refreshed, I bring to theeThe benediction of the ...
De Sauty (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poems)
AN ELECTRO-CHEMICAL ECLOGUEThe first messages received through the submarine cablewere sent by an electrical expert, a mysterious personagewho signed himself ...
Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Spanish Jew’s Tale; The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
Rabbi Ben Levi, on the Sabbath, readA volume of the Law, in which it said,"No man shall look upon my ...
The Gift of Tritemius (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Tritemius of Herbipolis, one day,While kneeling at the altar's foot to pray,Alone with God, as was his pious choice,Heard from ...
St.Gregory’s Guest (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
A TALE for Roman guides to tellTo careless, sight-worn travellers still,Who pause beside the narrow cellOf Gregory on the Caelian ...
Sea and Shore (Harry Lyman Koopman Poems)
OUR Mother, loved of all thy sons So dear, they die, not dying for thee;Yet are thy fondest, tenderest ones Thy wanderers ...
The Fox And The Crane (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
ONCE two persons uninvitedCame to join my dinner table;For the nonce they lived united,Fox and crane yclept in fable.Civil greetings ...
The Visit (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poems)
Askest "How long thou shall stay?"Devastator of the day!Know, each substance and relationThorough nature's operation,Hath its unit, bound, and metre,And ...
XLV. (Khoshal Khan Khattak Poems)
I am intoxicated! I am a worshipper of wine! I indulge! I indulge!Give ear, O censor! dost hear me? I ...
The Misanthrope (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poems)
AT first awhile sits he,With calm, unruffled brow;His features then I see,Distorted hideously,—An owl's they might be now.What is it, ...
Hill Fantasy (Fannie Stearns Davis Poems)
Sitteth by the red cairn a brown One, a hoofed One, High upon the mountain, where the grasses fail. Where ...
Beowulf (Episode 05) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
STONE-BRIGHT the street: it showed the wayto the crowd of clansmen. Corselets glistenedhand-forged, hard; on their harness brightthe steel ring ...
The Song of the Surf (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
WHITE steeds of ocean, that leap with a hollow and wearisome roarOn the bar of ironstone steep, not a fathom's ...
THE MISANTHROPE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
AT first awhile sits he, With calm, unruffled brow; His features then I see, Distorted hideously,-- An owl's they might ...
THE FOX AND CRANE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
ONCE two persons uninvited Came to join my dinner table; For the nonce they lived united, Fox and crane yclept ...
The Friar’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
Cleon (Robert Browning Poem)
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...