Hymn. To Light (Abraham Cowley Poems)
First-born of Chaos, who so fair didst comeFrom the old Negro's darksome womb!Which, when it saw the lovely child,The melancholy ...
First-born of Chaos, who so fair didst comeFrom the old Negro's darksome womb!Which, when it saw the lovely child,The melancholy ...
ISweet appletree, your branches delight me, Luxuriantly budding my pride and joy! I will put before the lord of Macreu, ...
"Fie upon't!All men are false, I think. The date of loveIs out, expired, its stories all grown stale,O'erpast, forgotten, like ...
This morning more mysterious seems the sea Than yesterday when, with reverberant roar, It charged upon the beaches, and the ...
I sometimes think that I have lived too long, Who have heard so many a gay brave singer's song Fail ...
All were too little for the merchant's hand, And yet my bravery bigger than his book; But when this hot ...
Speciously individual like a solid piece of spit floating in a cuspidor I dream of free bravery but am a ...
Here where the end of bone is no end of song And the earth is bedecked with immortality In what ...
An unwrapped icon, too potent to touch, she freed my breasts from the camp Empire dress. Now one of them's ...
AN ALPHABET OF FAMOUS GOOPS. Which you 'll Regard with Yells and Whoops. Futile Acumen! For you Yourselves are Doubtless ...
For God has given us a language of monosyllables to prevent our clipping. For a toad enjoys a finer prospect ...
Upon his way to rob a Bank He paused to watch a fire; Though crowds were pressing rank on rank ...
My boy's come back; he's here at last; He came home on a special train. My longing and my ache ...
Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day, And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds ...
High, on the Solitude of Alpine Hills, O'er-topping the grand imag'ry of Nature, Where one eternal winter seem'd to reign; ...
About a hundred and fifty years ago, History relates it happened so, A big ship sailed from the shores of ...
Near the village of Udorf, on the banks of the Rhine, There lived a miller and his family, once on ...
'Twas in the year 1815, and on the 18th day of June, That British cannon, against the French army, loudly ...
I Where the wings of a sunny Dome expand I saw a Banner in gladsome air- Starry, like Berenice's Hair- ...
We were a tribe, a family, a people. Wallace and Bruce guard now a painted field, And all may read ...
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
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