THE BELFRY OF BRUGES (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
In the market-place of Bruges stands the belfry old and brown; Thrice consumed and thrice rebuilded, still it watches o'er ...
In the market-place of Bruges stands the belfry old and brown; Thrice consumed and thrice rebuilded, still it watches o'er ...
Thou comest, Autumn, heralded by the rain, With banners, by great gales incessant fanned, Brighter than brightest silks of Samarcand, ...
Valour and Innocence Have latterly gone hence To certain death by certain shame attended. Envy--ah! even to tears! -- The ...
Listen sweet Dove unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till ...
Thrice, and above, blest, my soul's half, art thou, In thy both last and better vow; Could'st leave the city, ...
(1) a great man there was a great man so great he couldn't be criticised in the light who died ...
[Goethe says of this ode, that it is the only one remaining out of several strange hymns and dithyrambs composed ...
A FEAST was in a village spread,-- It was a wedding-day, they said. The parlour of the inn I found, ...
WHAT time our Lord still walk'd the earth, Unknown, despised, of humble birth, And on Him many a youth attended ...
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array, A younger brother homeward bent his way, Not much improved, as frequently ...
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid, In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid; The fertile subject never will ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns: Now Love prevails, and now Ambition gains Reason's lost Throne, and sov'reign Rule ...
Because she could find no one else to paint a picture of the old family place where she and her ...
This Consciousness that is aware Of Neighbors and the Sun Will be the one aware of Death And that itself ...
A narrow Fellow in the Grass Occasionally rides -- You may have met Him -- did you not His notice ...
I asked my Dad about the War when I was very young, he said it happened a long, long time ...
LOVE, thou are absolute, sole Lord Of life and death. To prove the word, We'll now appeal to none of ...
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
The day was wet, the rain fell souse Like jars of strawberry jam, a sound was heard in the ...
Through my heart's palace Thoughts unnumbered throng; And there, most quiet and, as a child, most wise, High-throned you sit, ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
EXPECT na, sir, in this narration, A fleechin, fleth'rin Dedication, To roose you up, an' ca' you guid, An' sprung ...
SOME books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn'd: Ev'n ministers they hae been ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
Only until this cigarette is ended, A little moment at the end of all, While on the floor the quiet ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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