THE BRIDE OF CORINTH. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
[First published in Schiller's Horen, in connection with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great ...
[First published in Schiller's Horen, in connection with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great ...
It doesn't matter what's the cause, What wrong they say we're righting, A curse for treaties, bonds and laws, When ...
JOHN courts Perrette; but all in vain; Love's sweetest oaths, and tears, and sighs All potent spells her heart to ...
PRONE, on my couch I calmly slept Against my wont. A little child Awoke me as he gently crept And ...
Oh, let me not serve so, as those men serve Whom honour's smokes at once fatten and starve; Poorly enrich't ...
By our first strange and fatal interview, By all desires which thereof did ensue, By our long starving hopes, by ...
Is the current rate of global warming a serious and cogent warning? Do we need to think about the fact ...
I said goodbye and went to bed to die; I never knew that they had lied - was quite surprised ...
The day was wet, the rain fell souse Like jars of strawberry jam, a sound was heard in the ...
Sent to a friend who had complained that I was glad enough to see him when he came, but didn't ...
From Bermondsey to Wandsworth So many churches are, Some with apsidal chancels, Some Perpendicular And schools by E.R. Robson In ...
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
There's little joy in life for me, And little terror in the grave; I've lived the parting hour to see ...
Indeed I live in the dark ages! A guileless word is an absurdity. A smooth forehead betokens A hard heart. ...
Ay, thou art for the grave; thy glances shine Too brightly to shine long; another Spring Shall deck her for ...
There is a mystic thread of life So dearly wreath'd with mine alone, That Destiny's relentless knife At once must ...
I 'Tis done -- but yesterday a King! And arm'd with Kings to strive -- And now thou art a ...
28 July Calmly, while sat up friendlies & made noise delight fuller than he can ready sing or studiously say, ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
I. Nay but you, who do not love her, Is she not pure gold, my mistress? Holds earth aught---speak truth---above ...
Cass was the youngest and most beautiful of 5 sisters. Cass was the most beautiful girl in town. 1/2 Indian ...
More towers must yet be built-more towers destroyed- Great rocks hoisted in air; And he must seek his bread in ...
Adieu to Belashanny! where I was bred and born; Go where I may, I'll think of you, as sure as ...
When you consider the radiance, that it does not withhold itself but pours its abundance without selection into every nook ...
Under her dark veil she wrung her hands. "Why are you so pale today?" "Because I made him drink of ...
I wrung my hands under my dark veil. . . "Why are you pale, what makes you reckless?" -- Because ...
And we shall not get excited. Because a translator May not get excited. Calmly, we shall pass on Words from ...
IF all the gentlest-hearted friends I know Concentred in one heart their gentleness, That still grew gentler till its pulse ...
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