The Storm (Bernard Waters Poems)
THE air is thick, unclean and warm And filled with mutterings of a storm ; Spidery Fear a web he ...
THE air is thick, unclean and warm And filled with mutterings of a storm ; Spidery Fear a web he ...
What was thine errand here? Thy beauty was more exquisite than aught That from this marr?d earth ...
Philosophy's most useful part is this,Which shews us what a wise man's duty is,Which teacheth what we should pursue or ...
'Tis men who say that through all hurt and pain The woman's love, wife's, mother's, still will hold, And breathes ...
O for my sake do you with fortune chide-- I almost took sad Shakespeare's thought for mine, So closely fits ...
NOT that on me the Cyprian fury fell,Last martyr of my love-ensanguined race;Not that my children drop the averted faceWhen ...
CCVIWhen men distrust me, not because they find Baseness in me, but basely they mistake The native sins, which in ...
A shame arose betwixt my Love and me. I am not worthy to be called her own. A thousand jeers ...
Reason will not decide at last; the sword will decide. The sword: an obsolete instrument of bronze or steel, formerly ...
His piety, his certainty of righteousness a mask, covering his pain, his pride sensing himself at the center more than ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
Lady Clara Vere de Vere Was eight years old, she said: Every ringlet, lightly shaken, ran itself in golden thread. ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap Left by the Holy Quest; and as he sat In hall ...
Now, scarce three paces measured from the mound, We stumbled on a stationary voice, And 'Stand, who goes?' 'Two from ...
Let Dew, house of Dew rejoice with Xanthenes a precious stone of an amber colour. Let Round, house of Round ...
The sovereign beauty which I do admire, Witness the world how worthy to be praised: The light whereof hath kindled ...
Rapt with the rage of mine own ravish'd thought, Through contemplation of those goodly sights, And glorious images in heaven ...
Rapt with the rage of mine own ravish'd thought, Through contemplation of those goodly sights, And glorious images in heaven ...
After seeing at Boston the statue of Robert Gould Shaw, killed while storming Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863, at the ...
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