To Sir Henry Wotton (John Donne Poems)
SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,For thus, friends absent speak. This ease controlsThe tediousness of my life ; but ...
SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,For thus, friends absent speak. This ease controlsThe tediousness of my life ; but ...
How struggles with the tempest's swellsThat warning of tumultuous bells!The fire is loose! and frantic knells Throb fast and faster,As tower ...
Yea! even here as everywhere, let manWorship his Recreator, and the world'sMade perfect by preliminary fire.O Thou, who in the ...
Where Pyramids and temple-wrecks are piled Confusedly on camel-coloured sands, And the mute Arab motionlessly stands,Like some swart god who never wept ...
What freeman knoweth freedom? Never heWhose father's father through long lives have reignedO'er kingdoms which mere heritage attained.Though from his ...
Fair art thou, Scotia. The swift mountain streamGushes, with deafening roar and whitening spray,From thy brown hills; where eagles seek ...
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gapLeft by the Holy Quest; and as he satIn hall at old ...
(_A Dramatic Fantasy_) Dealing with: _Boadicea_, queen of the Britons. _Lamora_, a ...
A tiny hut that seems to beFrom far away a swallows nestStands high upon a mountain steep;And nestles closely to ...
Mother of the Fair Delight,Thou handmaid perfect in God's sight,Now sitting fourth beside the Three,Thyself a woman-Trinity,-Being a daughter born ...
A frail and tenuous mist lingers on baffled and intricate branches;Little gilt leaves are still, for quietness holds every bough;Pools ...
Blind multitudes that jar confusedlyAt strife, earth's children, will ye never restFrom toils made hateful here, and dawns distressedWith ravelling ...
What freeman knoweth freedom? Never he Whose father's father through long lives have reigned O'er kingdoms which mere heritage attained. ...
A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness: A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine ...
When I thy singing next shall hear, I'll wish I might turn all to ear, To drink-in notes and numbers, ...
A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness; A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine ...
She is foremost of those that I would hear praised. I have gone about the house, gone up and down ...
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap Left by the Holy Quest; and as he sat In hall ...
Before you can learn the trees, you have to learn The language of the trees. That's done indoors, Out of ...
Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme- I will not madly deem that power ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
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