Endymion: A Mystical Comment On Titian’s ‘Sacred And Profane Love’ (James Russell Lowell Poems)
IMy day began not till the twilight fell,And, lo, in ether from heaven's sweetest well,The New Moon swam divinely isolateIn ...
IMy day began not till the twilight fell,And, lo, in ether from heaven's sweetest well,The New Moon swam divinely isolateIn ...
IThen first I knew, seeing that bent grey head,How England honours all her thousand dead.Then first I knew how faith ...
Tartarus, out-belching from his mouth the surgeOf horrible heat- the which are nowhere, norIndeed can be: but in this life ...
Tartarus, out-belching from his mouth the surgeOf horrible heat- the which are nowhere, norIndeed can be: but in this life ...
When the down is on the chinAnd the gold-gleam in the hair,When the birds their sweethearts winAnd champagne is in ...
As the petals fall awayBriefer grows the autumn day;When the blossoms come again,Longer will the light remain. (John Bannister Tabb)
Two little children played among the flowers,Their mothers were of kin, tho' far apart;The children's ages were the very sameE'en ...
Have you heard the story that gossips tell Of Burns of Gettysburg?-No? Ah, well, Brief is the glory that hero ...
Life is a count of losses,Every year; For the weak are heavier crosses, Every year; Lost Springs with sobs replying ...
_ON THE EAST DEVON COAST_Lie still, old Dane, below thy heap! --A sturdy-back and sturdy-limb, Whoe'er he was, I warrant ...
The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place; Man and boy stood cheering by, ...
i am a little church(no great cathedral)far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities-i do not worry if briefer ...
There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless treeWith beards askew, their eyes dull and wildTwelve ragged men, the council ...
now does our world descend the path to nothingness (cruel now cancels kind; friends turn to enemies) therefore lament,my dream ...
These blows of fate that shake our troubled life, This long, long sorrow o'er our parted fate, Like foes assailing ...
The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place; Man and boy stood cheering by, ...
And now it was evening. And Almitra the seeress said, "Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit ...
There is a June when Corn is cut And Roses in the Seed -- A Summer briefer than the first ...
Then the golden hour Will tick its last And the flame will go down in the flower. A briefer length ...
In your hidden memories There are fatal tidings of doom... A curse on sacred traditions, A desecration of happiness; And ...
1 When the world turns completely upside down You say we'll emigrate to the Eastern Shore Aboard a river-boat from ...
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