Gotham – Book I (Charles Churchill Poems)
Far off (no matter whether east or west,A real country, or one made in jest,Nor yet by modern Mandevilles disgraced,Nor ...
Far off (no matter whether east or west,A real country, or one made in jest,Nor yet by modern Mandevilles disgraced,Nor ...
Act III.SCENE I. The studio of the Spagnoletto. RIBERA before his canvas. LUCA in attendance.RIBERA (laying aside his brush).So! I ...
I.Before PROSPERO'S cell. Moonlight.ARIEL.So - Prospero is gone - and I am free -Free, free at last. His latest charge ...
1660At last the long darkness of anarchy lifts, and the dawn o'er the grayIn rosy pulsation floods; the tremulous amber ...
I. Where falls the shadow of the Kofel cross Athwart the Alpine snows, the rose of faith ...
I WILL arise and go unto my Father,Alas! and when I throw me at his feet,What can I say?,The Prodigal ...
(It is supposed that Shadow-of-a-Leaf uses the word "clear" in amore ancient sense of "beautiful.")As along a dark pine-bough, in ...
A TOAST to the Fools! Pierrot, Pantaloon, Harlequin, Clown, Merry-Andrew, Buffoon -- Touchstone and Triboulet -- all of the tribe. ...
BEHIND full many a gift there lies A splendid tale of sacrifice. On Christmas morn a mother's handAbout a young ...
When conquerors lift the bloody shield, Showing the fallen's ooze of life, And on a waste of blasted field Joy ...
How trifling shall these gifts appear Among the splendid manyThat loving friends now send to cheer Harvey and Ellen Jenney.And ...
Beloved, thou cam 'st to me of late and said; "Stay with me, Dearest! Stay another day! Stay thou because ...
805This Bauble was preferred of Bees-By Butterflies admiredAt Heavenly-Hopeless Distances-Was justified of Bird-Did Noon-enamel-in HerselfWas Summer to a ScoreWho only ...
Each item, each ornament, each bauble, bangle, a memory a special moment in our lives remembered each year in the ...
How trifling shall these gifts appear Among the splendid many That loving friends now send to cheer Harvey and Ellen ...
This Bauble was preferred of Bees -- By Butterflies admired At Heavenly -- Hopeless Distances -- Was justified of Bird ...
Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips ...
I I saw a staring virgin stand Where holy Dionysus died, And tear the heart out of his side. And ...
As we hurry away to the end, my friend, Of this sad little farce called existence, We are sure that ...
TO mute and to material things New life revolving summer brings; The genial call dead Nature hears, And in her ...
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