A Connachtman (Padraic Colum Poems)
IT'S my fear that my wake won't be quiet,Nor my wake house a silent place :For who would keep back ...
IT'S my fear that my wake won't be quiet,Nor my wake house a silent place :For who would keep back ...
SECTS in Religion?--Yes of every raceWe nurse some portion in our favour'd place;Not one warm preacher of one growing sectCan ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
KULLERVO AS A SHEPHERD.Kullerwoinen, wizard-servantOf the blacksmith, Ilmarinen,Purchased slave from Untamoinen,Magic son with sky-blue stockings.,With a head of golden ringlets,In ...
The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feasts Excited the spleen of the Birds and the Beasts: For their mirth ...
Ye in the age gone by,Who ruled the world—a world how lovely then!—And guided still the steps of happy men ...
The Turks, Ossetians, Lekis, Persians,Cherkez, Ghlighvis, Didos and KistsWere ever Georgia's enemies,Assaulting her with blood-smeared fists.But soon at home domestic ...
CLOUD-MAIDENS that float on forever, Dew-sprinkled, fleet bodies, and fair, Let us rise from our Sire's loud river, Great Ocean, ...
I would wake the shell And lull my senses to forgetfulness With its sweet melody.- Unpublished Poem. Oh pardon for ...
Melpomene among her livid people,Ere stroke of lyre, upon Thaleia looks,Warned by old contests that one museful rippleAlong those lips ...
(a) they seek to celebrate the word not to bring their knives out on a poem dissecting it to find ...
Do I see a contest yonder? See I miracles or pastimes? Beauteous urchins, five in number, 'Gainst five sisters fair ...
The Poseidonians forgot the Greek language after so many centuries of mingling with Tyrrhenians, Latins, and other foreigners. The only ...
God-Full-of-Mercy, the prayer for the dead. If God was not full of mercy, Mercy would have been in the world, ...
AS I walk these broad, majestic days of peace, (For the war, the struggle of blood finish'd, wherein, O terrific ...
1 STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands-lover ...
Ye in the age gone by, Who ruled the world--a world how lovely then!-- And guided still the steps of ...
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
Nolueram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos; Sedjuvat, hoc precibus me tribuisse tuis. (Martial, Epigrams 12.84) What dire offence from am'rous causes ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
To-day the woods are trembling through and through With shimmering forms, that flash before my view, Then melt in green ...
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