The Island: Canto II. (Lord George Gordon Byron Poems)
I.How pleasant were the songs of Toobonai,When Summer's Sun went down the coral bay!Come, let us to the islet's softest ...
I.How pleasant were the songs of Toobonai,When Summer's Sun went down the coral bay!Come, let us to the islet's softest ...
Now with a general peace the world was blest,While ours, a world divided from the rest,A dreadful quiet felt, and ...
This is not sorrow, this is work:I build a cairn of words over a silent man,My friend John Learmonth whom ...
There are people, I know, to be found, Who say, and apparently think,That sorrow and care may be drowned By a timely ...
April dusk It is tragic to be a poet now And not a lover Paradised under the mutest bough. I look through my window ...
Whene'er I read some savage tale Of punishment devisedBy tyrants in an olden day, When serfs were victimised,I reverently tell ...
Tho' I own I have no adequate proofsOf this queer tale of the quaint old Goophs - The Goophs ...
I happened in Gosh on an ancient day,In the land of Glugs far, far away Where the skies are green ...
We roam about the countrysideAnd view the farmlands rolling wide - A picture surely this of peace, of planty.We mark ...
Encircled by the traffic's roarMidst music and the blaze of lightThe battle-jaded khaki knightsThrong, sleek and civilised once more.On, one ...
Why can't I keep out of harm's way? Am I so preoccupied, simultaneously looking ahead, concurrently looking behind; concerned to ...
It brings to mind Swift leaving a fortune to Dublin 'For the founding of a lunatic asylum - no place ...
Alas! now o'er the civilised world there hangs a gloom For brave General Gordon, that was killed in Khartoum, He ...
Alas! our noble and generous Queen Victoria is dead, And I hope her soul to Heaven has fled, To sing ...
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