The State (Alcaeus Poems)
What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement, or labored mound, Thick wall ...
What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement, or labored mound, Thick wall ...
Stepping demurely, two by two,Those rapped at Paradise; and went through.In flame to shame the golden sun,These flew to Sheol, ...
I had not minded -- Walls -- Were Universe -- one Rock -- And far I heard his silver Call ...
Escape is such a thankful Word I often in the Night Consider it unto myself No spectacle in sight Escape ...
"OH, when I was a little Ghost, A merry time had we! Each seated on his favourite post, We chumped ...
EVENING, as slow thy placid shades descend, Veiling with gentlest hush the landscape still, The lonely battlement, and farthest hill ...
AS slow I climb the cliff's ascending side, Much musing on the track of terror past When o'er the dark ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
I My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have ...
My Soul. I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent, Upon the broken, ...
Pellam the King, who held and lost with Lot In that first war, and had his realm restored But rendered ...
O listen, listen, ladies gay! No haughty feat of arms I tell; Soft is the note, and sad the lay ...
O lovers' eyes are sharp to see, And lovers' ears in hearing; And love, in life's extremity, Can lend an ...
"Throughout these infinite orbs of mingling light, Of which yon earth is one, is wide diffus'd A Spirit of activity ...
That Providence which had so long the care Of Cromwell's head, and numbred ev'ry hair, Now in its self (the ...
A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector That Providence which had so long the care ...
I. EDWIN BOOTH An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a ...
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