The Kalevala – Rune XXIII (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
OSMOTAR THE BRIDE-ADVISERNow the bride must be instructed,Who will teach the Maid of Beauty,Who instruct the Rainbow-daughter?Osmotar, the wisdom-maiden,Kalew's fair ...
OSMOTAR THE BRIDE-ADVISERNow the bride must be instructed,Who will teach the Maid of Beauty,Who instruct the Rainbow-daughter?Osmotar, the wisdom-maiden,Kalew's fair ...
SILENT old gateway! whose two columns stand Like simple monuments on either hand; No trellised iron-work, with pleasant view Of ...
GIVE me O indulgent Fate!Give me yet, before I Dye,A sweet, but absolute Retreat,'Mongst Paths so lost, and Trees so ...
O YE ancient and undisturbed Armenian plains of kind mornings,And ye, golden fields, rich orchards, and pastures smiling with life,Ye ...
I Whate'er I be, old England is my dam! So there's my answer to the judges, clear. I'm nothing of ...
Somehow I never liked you, John, your ways were crude Your smile was pharisaical, your manners rude; Although you prospered ...
Come, my little Robert, near—Fie! what filthy hands are here—Who that e'er could understandThe rare structure of a hand,With its ...
If only dinner cooked itself,And groceries grew upon the shelf;If children did as they were told,And never had a cough ...
To prink me up, and make me higher placed, All came too late that tarried any time; Piles of provision ...
I love thee as I love the holiest things,Like perfect poetry and angels' wings,And cleanliness, and sacred motherhood,And all things ...
Groping back to bed after a piss I part the thick curtains, and am startled by The rapid clouds, the ...
My God, I heard this day, That none doth build a stately habitation, But he that means to dwell therein. ...
Leave me, my blamer, For the sake of the love Which unites your soul with That of your beloved one; ...
Each of us a vessel God's love to reveal filled with his grace, his blessing pouring out his love each ...
Give me, O indulgent Fate! Give me yet before I die A sweet, but absolute retreat, 'Mongst paths so lost ...
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
Flowers through the window lavender and yellow changed by white curtains- Smell of cleanliness- Sunshine of late afternoon- On the ...
All week she's cleaned someone else's house, stared down her own face in the shine of copper-- bottomed pots, polished ...
BEHAVIOR-fresh, native, copious, each one for himself or herself, Nature and the Soul expressed-America and freedom expressed-In it the finest ...
I never kill a fly because I think that what we have of laws To regulate and civilize Our daily ...
Time was when his half million drew The breath of six per cent; But soon the worm of what-was-not Fed ...
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