To the Queen. (Anne Killigrew Poem)
AS those who pass the Alps do say, The Rocks which first oppose their way, And so amazing-High do show, ...
AS those who pass the Alps do say, The Rocks which first oppose their way, And so amazing-High do show, ...
Away by the lands of the Japanee Where the paper lanterns glow And the crews of all the shipping drink ...
CARELESSLY over the plain away, Where by the boldest man no path Cut before thee thou canst discern, Make for ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
As Love and I, late harbor'd in one inn, With proverbs thus each other entertain: "In Love there is no ...
Of Death I try to think like this -- The Well in which they lay us Is but the Likeness ...
It sounded as if the Streets were running And then -- the Streets stood still -- Eclipse -- was all ...
Grief is a Mouse -- And chooses Wainscot in the Breast For His Shy House -- And baffles quest -- ...
The dung was recent, not an event unusual in itself but difficult to explain of cows grazing the other side ...
Of Nelson and the North Sing the glorious day's renown, When to battle fierce came forth All the might of ...
Oh! did those eyes, instead of fire, With bright, but mild affection shine: Though they might kindle less desire, Love, ...
DAUGHTER of Chaos' doting years, Nurse of ten thousand hopes and fears, Whether thy airy, insubstantial shade (The rights of ...
NO Spartan tube, no Attic shell, No lyre Æolian I awake; 'Tis liberty's bold note I swell, Thy harp, Columbia, ...
WHEN dear Clarinda, 1 matchless fair, First struck Sylvander's raptur'd view, He gaz'd, he listened to despair, Alas! 'twas all ...
The Boers were down on Kimberley with siege and Maxim gun; The Boers were down on Kimberley, their numbers ten ...
Adieu dear object of my Love's excess, And with thee all my hopes of happiness, With the same fervent and ...
The Boers were down on Kimberley with siege and Maxim gun; The Boers were down on Kimberley, their numbers ten ...
There was movement at the station, for the word has passed around That the colt from old Regret had got ...
This was the way of it, don't you know -- Ryan was "wanted" for stealing sheep, And never a trooper, ...
'Twas the horse thief, Andy Regan, that was hunted like a dog By the troopers of the upper Murray side, ...
Yes, sad one of Sion, if closely resembling, In shame and in sorrow, thy wither'd-up heart -- If drinking deep, ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
A True Incident of Pre-Revolutionary French History. Now the lovely autumn morning breathes its freshness in earth's face, In the ...
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