Mac Flecknoe (John Dryden Poem)
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
I IN EXCELSIS Two dwellings, Peace, are thine. One is the mountain-height, Uplifted in the loneliness of light Beyond the ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
O who will walk a mile with me Along life's merry way? A comrade blithe and full of glee, Who ...
STEP me now a bridal measure, Work give way to love and leisure, Hearts be free and hearts be gay ...
Circumference thou Bride of Awe Possessing thou shalt be Possessed by every hallowed Knight That dares to covet thee (Emily ...
TO the assembled folk At great St. Kavin's spoke Young Brother Amiel on Christmas Eve; I give you joy, my ...
THE ORB I like is not the one That dazzles with its lightning gleam; That dares to look upon the ...
LOVE, thou are absolute, sole Lord Of life and death. To prove the word, We'll now appeal to none of ...
Two went to pray? O rather say One went to brag, th' other to pray: One stands up close and ...
Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Locked up from ...
HAIL, sister springs, Parents of silver-footed rills! Ever bubbling things, Thawing crystal, snowy hills! Still spending, never spent; I mean ...
The double 12 sorwe of Troilus to tellen, That was the king Priamus sone of Troye, In lovinge, how his ...
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
As one who strives a hill to climb, Who never climbed before: Who finds it, in a little time, Grow ...
A place of dryad and hamadryad, there are eyes here by the million. Many divert to watch me. Threatened, they ...
Let me introduce to you my poetry: it's an island flying from book to book searching for the page where ...
A man on his own in a car Is revenging himself on his wife; He open the throttle and bubbles ...
Twain? Oh, yes, I've heard Mark Twain Heard him down to Pleasant Plain; Funny? Yes, I guess so. Folks Seemed ...
Believe not those who say The upward path is smooth, Lest thou shouldst stumble in the way And faint before ...
Fair was the evening and brightly the sun Was shining on desert and grove, Sweet were the breezes and balmy ...
...and when "the future" is uttered, swarms of mice rush out of the Russian language and gnaw a piece of ...
In the dungeon-crypts, idly did I stray, Reckless of the lives wasting there away; "Draw the ponderous bars! open, Warder ...
Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom and desolate despair; A ...
Sir, since the last Elizabethan died, Or, rather, that more Paradisal muse, Blind with much light, passed to the light ...
A ship that bears much sail, and little ballast, is easily overset; and that man, whose head hath great abilities, ...
This youth too long has heard the break Of waters in a land of change. He goes to see what ...
Eternally the choking steam goes up From the black pools of seething oil. . . . How merry Those little ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
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