Upon the saying that my VERSES were made by another. (Anne Killigrew Poem)
NExt Heaven my Vows to thee (O Sacred Muse! ) I offer'd up, nor didst thou them refuse. O Queen ...
NExt Heaven my Vows to thee (O Sacred Muse! ) I offer'd up, nor didst thou them refuse. O Queen ...
Oh, glorious are the guarded heights Where guardian souls abide-- Self-exiled from our gross delights-- Above, beyond, outside: An ampler ...
Once, on a glittering ice-field, ages and ages ago, Ung, a maker of pictures, fashioned an image of snow. Fashioned ...
The banked oars fell an hundred strong, And backed and threshed and ground, But bitter was the rowers' song As ...
O SORROW! Why dost borrow The natural hue of health, from vermeil lips?-- To give maiden blushes To the white ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
Here in turn succeed and rule Carter, smith, and village fool, Then again the place is known As tavern, shop, ...
JOHN courts Perrette; but all in vain; Love's sweetest oaths, and tears, and sighs All potent spells her heart to ...
A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that ...
(Comus.) Your hay it is mow'd, and your corn is reap'd; Your barns will be full, and your hovels heap'd: ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
The Tint I cannot take -- is best -- The Color too remote That I could show it in Bazaar ...
You love me -- you are sure -- I shall not fear mistake -- I shall not cheated wake -- ...
Awakening in the twenty four hour embrace of a few moments sleep, where half a lifetime eludes dreams; and feeling ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
either peace or happiness, let it enfold you when i was a young man I felt these things were dumb,unsophisticated. ...
Compelled by calamity's magnet They loiter and stare as if the house Burnt-out were theirs, or as if they thought ...
We have all of us read how the Israelites fled From Egypt with Pharaoh in eager pursuit of 'em, And ...
Striding through the gates of learning, Wrapped warmly in her black abaya, Modestly cloaked head to toe, Not a hair ...
Has sorrow thy young days shaded, As clouds o'er the morning fleet? Too fast have those young days faded That, ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
I was only eight years old; And before I grew up and knew what it meant I had no words ...
So much have I forgotten in ten years, So much in ten brief years! I have forgot What time the ...
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