The Origin Of The Peloponnesian War (Aristophanes Poems)
DICAEOPOLIS Be not surprised, most excellent spectators, If I that am a beggar have presumed To claim ...
DICAEOPOLIS Be not surprised, most excellent spectators, If I that am a beggar have presumed To claim ...
"TELL us a story," comes the cry From little lips when nights are ...
There are not many sins when once we sift them.In actions of evolving human soulsStriving to reach high goalsAnd falling ...
A ParodyJohn A. Calhoun, my Joe John, "I wonder what you mean?"You're always getting in some scrape and getting off ...
When all hearts are opened,And all the secrets known,When guile and lies are banished,And subterfuge is gone. When God rolls ...
What! "Out of danger?" Can the slighted DameOr canting Pharisee no more defame?Will Treachery caress my hand no more,Nor Hatred ...
ILord of this blood-drenched battle plain,Lord of the foe our hands have slainGlory to Thee amidst the dead,That Thou hast ...
Nay, nay, Antonio! nay, thou shalt not blame her,My Gracia, who hath so deserted me.Thou art my friend, but if ...
If any strive to injure, or defameYour honour, filching from you your good name;Consider, he believes this blame your due,That ...
I said to Lettice, our sister Lettice,While drooped and glistened her eyelash brown,"Your man's a poor man, a cold and ...
I have got a new-born sister;I was nigh the first that kissed her.When the nursing woman brought herTo papa, his ...
There was a man in our town who had King Midas' touch;He gave away his millions to the colleges and ...
The warriors marched to Cattraeth, full of mead; Drunken, but firm of array: great the shame, But greater ...
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array, A younger brother homeward bent his way, Not much improved, as frequently ...
Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns: Now Love prevails, and now Ambition gains Reason's lost Throne, and sov'reign Rule ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
WHILE at the stook the shearers cow'r To shun the bitter blaudin' show'r, Or in gulravage rinnin scowr To pass ...
I 'But where do you go?' said the lady, while both sat under the yew, And her eyes were alive ...
Ah whither, Love, wilt thou now carry me? What wontless fury dost thou now inspire Into my feeble breast, too ...
AH whither, Love, wilt thou now carry me? What wontless fury dost thou now inspire Into my feeble breast, too ...
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