In The Vaulted Way (Thomas Hardy Poem)
In the vaulted way, where the passage turned To the shadowy corner that none could see, You paused for our ...
In the vaulted way, where the passage turned To the shadowy corner that none could see, You paused for our ...
I I saw a slowly-stepping train -- Lined on the brows, scoop-eyed and bent and hoar -- Following in files ...
the dream of the white bird flying offers a freedom as tasty as nectar how our lips purse to the ...
And now it was evening. And Almitra the seeress said, "Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit ...
There are two phrases, you must know, So potent (yet so small) That wheresoe'er a man may go He needs ...
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play, Which oft resumes its fascinating sway; Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or ...
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
You constituted Time -- I deemed Eternity A Revelation of Yourself -- 'Twas therefore Deity The Absolute -- removed The ...
The Malay -- took the Pearl -- Not -- I -- the Earl -- I -- feared the Sea -- ...
The Manner of its Death When Certain it must die -- 'Tis deemed a privilege to choose -- 'Twas Major ...
She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or ...
Like Flowers, that heard the news of Dews, But never deemed the dripping prize Awaited their -- low Brows -- ...
The Voice that stands for Floods to me Is sterile borne to some -- The Face that makes the Morning ...
The sun goes down, and over all These barren reaches by the tide Such unelusive glories fall, I almost dream ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
When first we met she seemed so white I feared her; As one might near a spirit bright I neared ...
Jan 7th A dreadful darkness closes in On my bewildered mind; O let me suffer and not sin, Be tortured ...
Methinks in Him there dwells alway A sea of laughter very deep, Where the leviathans leap, And little children play, ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
SIT stilla worda breath may break (As light airs stir a sleeping lake,) The glassy calm that soothes my woes, ...
ARRANGING long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we've set ourselves ! How ...
Long ago I wished to leave " The house where I was born; " Long ago I used to grieve, ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
When all around grew drear and dark, And reason half withheld her ray- And hope but shed a dying spark ...
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