The Blind Girl Of Castel Cuille (Jacques Jasmin Poems)
Only the Lowland tongue of Scotland mightRehearse this little tragedy aright;Let me attempt it with an English quill;And take, O ...
Only the Lowland tongue of Scotland mightRehearse this little tragedy aright;Let me attempt it with an English quill;And take, O ...
SCENE I. The Country.Enter ALBERT.Albert. O that the earth were empty, as when CainHad no perplexity to hide his head!Or ...
At the foot of the mountain heightWhere is perched Castel Cuille,When the apple, the plum, and the almond treeIn the ...
"_Man hard of heart to Man! ... of horrid things_ _Most horrid; midst stupendous highly strange:_ _Yet oft his courtesies are smoother ...
The elder folks shook hands at last,Down seat by seat the signal passed.To simple ways like ours unused,Half solemnized and ...
Over the dim confessional cried Father Amatus,-cloistered young,-Dropping his rosary by his side, Careless where his crucifix swung:"I have been priest since-an ...
IOne fairest of the ripe unwedded leftHer shadow on the Sage's path; he found,By common signs, that she had done ...
THREE months had passed since she had knelt before The grate of the confessional, and he, --The priest--had ...
FROM St. Peter's tower the bell had toll'd,For the Carmelite Monks to pray,And the holy priest by the altar kneel'dOn ...
(REFECTORY, MISSION SAN GABRIEL, 1869)Good!--said the Padre,--believe me still,"Don Giovanni," or what you will,The type's eternal! We knew him hereAs ...
One night, when bitterer winds than ours,On hill-sides and in valleys low,Built sepulchers for the dead flowers,And buried them in ...
Let Romanists all at Confessional kneel, Let the Jew with disgust turn from it,Let the mighty Crown Prelate ...
Church—doors should still stand open, night and day, Open to all who come for praise or prayer, Laden with gift ...
Love, one day, on mischief bent, Vowed that he would play the friar.I must be his penitent. His confessional the ...
Drunk, I kissed the moon where it stretched on the floor. I'd removed happiness from a green bottle, both sipped ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
That second time they hunted me From hill to plain, from shore to sea, And Austria, hounding far and wide ...
Unshaven and thin, with an angular face He's lain on my mattress for several days. A cast-iron shadow hangs down ...
Light up your pipe again, old chum, and sit awhile with me; I've got to watch the bannock bake -- ...
From cold Norse caves or buccaneer Southern seas Oft come repenting tempests here to die; Bewailing old-time wrecks and robberies, ...
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