Upon the saying that my VERSES were made by another. (Anne Killigrew Poem)
NExt Heaven my Vows to thee (O Sacred Muse! ) I offer'd up, nor didst thou them refuse. O Queen ...
NExt Heaven my Vows to thee (O Sacred Muse! ) I offer'd up, nor didst thou them refuse. O Queen ...
I Sing the Man that never Equal knew, Whose Mighty Arms all Asia did subdue, Whose Conquests through the spacious ...
Dorinda. SAbæan Perfumes fragrant Roses bring, With all the Flowers that Paint the gaudy Spring: Scatter them all in young ...
1891 There were thirty million English who talked of England's might, There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed ...
COME, dear old comrade, you and I Will steal an hour from days gone by, The shining days when life ...
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
I In Casterbridge there stood a noble pile, Wrought with pilaster, bay, and balustrade In tactful times when shrewd Eliza ...
The church flings forth a battled shade Over the moon-blanched sward: The church; my gift; whereto I paid My all ...
And now it was evening. And Almitra the seeress said, "Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit ...
I What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there a new thing under the Sun? At last inquisitive ...
There's a breathless hush on the freeway tonight Beyond the ledges of concrete restaurants fall into dreams with candlelight couples ...
Step lightly on this narrow spot -- The broadest Land that grows Is not so ample as the Breast These ...
Lay this Laurel on the One Too intrinsic for Renown -- Laurel -- veil your deathless tree -- Him you ...
That bright chimeric beast Conceived yet never born, Save in the poet's breast, The white-flanked unicorn, Never may be shaken ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
'Twas at that hour of beauty when the setting sun squandereth his cloudy bed with rosy hues, to flood his ...
The Man that hath great griefs I pity not; 'Tis something to be great In any wise, and hint the ...
In a cool curving world he lies And ripples with dark ecstasies. The kind luxurious lapse and steal Shapes all ...
When you were there, and you, and you, Happiness crowned the night; I too, Laughing and looking, one of all, ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
Lo giorno se n'andava, e l'aere bruno toglieva li animai che sono in terra da le fatiche loro; e io ...
THO' cruel fate should bid us part, Far as the pole and line, Her dear idea round my heart, Should ...
WHAT needs this din about the town o' Lon'on, How this new play an' that new sang is comin? Why ...
I GAT your letter, winsome Willie; Wi' gratefu' heart I thank you brawlie; Tho' I maun say't, I wad be ...
In Lake Forest, a suburb of Chicago, a woman sits at her desk to write me a letter. She holds ...
THE North Star whispers: "You are one Of those whose course no chance can change. You blunder, but are not ...
(Note: - Pocahontas is buried at Gravesend, England.) "Pocahontas' body, lovely as a poplar, sweet as a red haw in ...
A Song in Chinese Tapestries "How, how," he said. "Friend Chang," I said, "San Francisco sleeps as the dead- Ended ...
I. THE VOICE OF THE MAN IMPATIENT WITH VISIONS AND UTOPIAS We find your soft Utopias as white As new-cut ...
A Fantasy, dedicated to the little poet Alice Oliver Henderson, ten years old. The Fantasy shows how tiger-hearts are the ...
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