The Towers of Time (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Under what withering leprous light The very grass as hair is grey, Grass in the cracks of the paven courts ...
Under what withering leprous light The very grass as hair is grey, Grass in the cracks of the paven courts ...
The wind blew out from Bergen, from the dawning to the day There was a wreck of trees, a fall ...
Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Locked up from ...
The West Village by then was changing; before long the rundown brownstones at its farthest edge would have slipped into ...
A chieftain, to the Highlands bound, Cries, ``Boatman, do not tarry! And I'll give thee a silver pound To row ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Pale as the night that pales In the dawn's pearl-pure pavillion, I wait for thee, ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Pale as the night that pales In the dawn's pearl-pure pavillion, I wait for thee, ...
All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his ...
Its mother being tethered near it Poor little Foal of an oppress?d race! I love the languid patience of thy ...
Part I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering ...
The Beaver's Lesson They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
When sycamore leaves wer a-spreaden Green-ruddy in hedges, Bezide the red doust o' the ridges, A-dried at Woak Hill; I ...
If souls should only sheen so bright In heaven as in e'thly light, An' nothen better wer the cease, How ...
Listen, ladies, while I sing The ballad of John Henry King. John Henry was a bachelor, His age was thirty-three ...
I bowed my head in anguish sore When Life made Death his bride; "Soul, we are lost forever more!" Unto ...
(John of the Cross) In a dark night, when the light burning was the burning of love (fortuitous night, fated, ...
When sycamore leaves wer a-spreaden Green-ruddy in hedges, Bezide the red doust o' the ridges, A-dried at Woak Hill; I ...
If souls should only sheen so bright In heaven as in e'thly light, An' nothen better wer the cease, How ...
Matron! the children of whose love, Each to his grave, in youth have passed, And now the mould is heaped ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
"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 'Tis done -- but yesterday a King! And arm'd with Kings to strive -- And now thou art a ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
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