A Loafer (John Davidson Poem)
I hang about the streets all day, At night I hang about; I sleep a little when I may, But ...
I hang about the streets all day, At night I hang about; I sleep a little when I may, But ...
Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, Made in the last promotion of the Blest; Whose palms, new pluck'd from Paradise, ...
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
There is a word Which bears a sword Can pierce an armed man -- It hurls its barbed syllables And ...
"Sic transit gloria mundi," "How doth the busy bee," "Dum vivimus vivamus," I stay mine enemy! Oh "veni, vidi, vici!" ...
It would have been love, I am sure of it, and I held her hand torn between concern and pride ...
TO the assembled folk At great St. Kavin's spoke Young Brother Amiel on Christmas Eve; I give you joy, my ...
I Soul, what art thou in the tribes of the sea? LORD, said a flying fish, Below the foundations of ...
"Old things need not be therefore true," O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought ...
It's August and I have not Read a book in six months except something called The Retreat from Moscow by ...
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
The door it opened slowly, my father he came in, I was nine years old. And he stood so tall ...
Having begun in thought there in that factual embodied wonder what was lost in the emptied lovers patience and mind ...
1) Sleeping birds, lead me, soft birds, be me inside this black room, back of the white moon. In the ...
Song (Act V, scene i) And this place our forefathers made for man ...
Its mother being tethered near it Poor little Foal of an oppress?d race! I love the languid patience of thy ...
Low was our pretty Cot : our tallest Rose Peep'd at the chamber-window. We could hear At silent noon, and ...
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
"SISTER, sister, go to bed! Go and rest your weary head." Thus the prudent brother said. "Do you want a ...
Tweedledee said to Alice, "You like poetry-" "Ye-es, pretty well-some poetry," Alice said doubtfully. "What shall I repeat to her," ...
It could be the name of a prehistoric beast that roamed the Paleozoic earth, rising up on its hind legs ...
I have sown beside all waters in my day. I planted deep, within my heart the fear that wind or ...
The only thing I miss about Los Angeles is the Hollywood Freeway at midnight, windows down and radio blaring bearing ...
AN ALPHABET OF FAMOUS GOOPS. Which you 'll Regard with Yells and Whoops. Futile Acumen! For you Yourselves are Doubtless ...
SHE knelt upon her brother's grave, My little girl of six years old-- He used to be so good and ...
Lough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean's wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever ...
Contemplating Hell, as I once heard it, My brother Shelley found it to be a place Much like the city ...
Walking through a field with my little brother Seth I pointed to a place where kids had made angels in ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
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