The Death-Raven (From The Danish Of Oehlenslaeger) (George Borrow Poems)
The silken sail, which caught the summer breeze,Drove the light vessel through the azure seas;Upon the lofty deck, Dame Sigrid ...
The silken sail, which caught the summer breeze,Drove the light vessel through the azure seas;Upon the lofty deck, Dame Sigrid ...
On Nineveh's proud towers the sinking sun In cloudless splendor looks; nor, through the earth, Like glory doth behold. In ...
Once on a time there was a man so hideous and ugly That little children shrank and tried to ...
KULLERVO AND THE CHEAT-CAKE.Thereupon the lad, Kullervo,Laid his luncheon in his basket,Drove the herd to mountain-pastures,O'er the hills and through ...
It was the morning; through the shutters closed, Along the balcony, the earliest rays Of sunlight my dark room were ...
Beneath a lamp in Spring-street, on a recent calm spring night,I came unwittingly upon a most pathetic sight;A sorry spectacle ...
ALL has befallen as I say, The old r?gime has passed away, And quite a new one Is being fashioned ...
Let us not talk philosophy, drop it, Jeanne. So many words, so much paper, who can stand it. I told ...
----- Poet's art is ever able To endow with truth mere fable. ---- MIGNON. [This universally known poem is also ...
And one of the elders of the city said, "Speak to us of Good and Evil." And he answered: Of ...
From his slim Palace in the Dust He relegates the Realm, More loyal for the exody That has befallen him. ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
'Twas in the year of 1746, on a fine summer afternoon, When trees and flowers were in full bloom, That ...
My Claudia, it is long since we have met, So kissed, so held each other heart to heart! I thought ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Let us not talk philosophy, drop it, Jeanne. So many words, so much paper, who can stand it. I told ...
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