Bridegroom Dick (Herman Melville Poems)
1876Sunning ourselves in October on a dayBalmy as spring, though the year was in decay,I lading my pipe, she stirring ...
1876Sunning ourselves in October on a dayBalmy as spring, though the year was in decay,I lading my pipe, she stirring ...
My Lord Tomnoddy got up one day;It was half after two,He had nothing to do,So his Lordship rang for his ...
"HERE! take this potent charm," Mauritius said,"And see if Time hath ought in store for thee;"With care beneath thy downy ...
I.Come listen to another song,Should make your heart beat high,Bring crimson to your forehead,And the lustre to your eye;-It is ...
He ain't no gold-laced "Belvidere," To sparkle in the sun;He don't parade with gay cockade, And posies in his gun;He ain't no ...
HAST thou well my counsels weigh'd,Shew me not that gay cockade;--I have watch'd thy tender years,With a mother's hopes and ...
Gone is the Gentian from the hill;Gone is the Wind-flower from the glade;Fritillary and DaffodilHave perished by the ruthless spade.But ...
Dearly beloved Countrymen and Friends, Accept the verse an half--starv'd Poet sends: Who scant of paper in these needy times, ...
AN IMPARTIAL HISTORY of the RISE, PROGRESS, AND EXTINCTION of the late REBELLION In Britain, in the Years 1745 and ...
YES, our Election's past, and we've been free,Somewhat as madmen without keepers be;And such desire of Freedom has been shown,That ...
A TALE. WHILE tyrants sit enthron'd in state,With trophies at their feet,And fawning courtiers round them wait,With adulation sweet!Informing them ...
I'm weary of this weather and I hanker for the waysWhich people read of in the psalms and preachers paraphrase--The ...
I wish I were over the Curlew Mountains, Marching to Sligo by valley and fen; I wish I were back ...
Joy to Philip, he this dayHas his long coats cast away,And (the childish season gone)Puts the manly breeches on.Officer on ...
152The Sun kept stooping-stooping-low!The Hills to meet him rose!On his side, what Transaction!On their side, what Repose!Deeper and deeper grew ...
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
Though poor and in trouble I wander alone, With rebel cockade in my hat, Though friends may desert me, and ...
The Sun kept stooping -- stooping -- low! The Hills to meet him rose! On his side, what Transaction! On ...
(Translated from the French by Edouard Rodti) My wife with the hair of a wood fire With the thoughts of ...
WHEN wild war's deadly blast was blawn, And gentle peace returning, Wi' mony a sweet babe fatherless, And mony a ...
Now warm with ministerial ire, Fierce sallied forth our loyal 'Squire, And on his striding steps attends His desperate clan ...
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