His Litany to the Holy Spirit (Robert Herrick Poem)
In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit comfort me! ...
In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit comfort me! ...
He enters, and mute on the edge of a chair Sits a thin-faced lady, a stranger there, A type of ...
Against the rubber tongues of cows and the hoeing hands of men Thistles spike the summer air And crackle open ...
This country nurtured hope decayed, The politician cruises on a 4WD guzzler, The thief. Feeling the base of his belly. ...
The same leaves over and over again! They fall from giving shade above To make one texture of faded brown ...
Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. HERE I am, ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
Three weeks gone and the combatants gone returning over the nightmare ground we found the place again, and found the ...
Why should a foolish marriage vow, Which long ago was made, Oblige us to each other now, When passion is ...
As due by many titles I resign My self to Thee, O God; first I was made By Thee, and ...
The Opening and the Close Of Being, are alike Or differ, if they do, As Bloom upon a Stalk. That ...
Delia, the unkindest girl on earth, When I besought the fair, That favour of intrinsic worth A ringlet of her ...
When Cupid held an auction sale, I hastened to his mart, For I had heard that he would sell The ...
BUT two miles more, and then we rest ! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the ...
The room is quiet, thoughts alone People its mute tranquillity; The yoke put on, the long task done, I am, ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
And thou art dead, as young and fair As aught of mortal birth; And form so soft and charm so ...
Swift as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory & of good, the Sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his ...
Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid, My verse alone had all thy gentle grace, But now my gracious ...
A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector That Providence which had so long the care ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
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