Horace To Melpomene (Eugene Field Poems)
Lofty and enduring is the monument I've reared,— Come, tempests, with your bitterness assailing;And thou, corrosive blasts of time, by ...
Lofty and enduring is the monument I've reared,— Come, tempests, with your bitterness assailing;And thou, corrosive blasts of time, by ...
AD MELPOMENENHorace: Book III, Ode 30._"Exegi monumentum aere perennius.Regalique situ pyramidum altius"_Look you, the monument I have erected High as ...
Heaven shaped her ear in fashioning the shell, A pearly circlet, lined with faintest pink; So dainty thin, the light ...
Why should I fret the passion of this string, Singing to ears that fain would have me mute-- I who ...
Ye, whose aspirings court the Muse of lays "Severest of those orders which belong Distinct and separate to Delphic song" ...
Think you we slept within the Delphic bower,What time our victim sought Apollo's grace?Nay, drawn into ourselves, in that deep ...
As Hermes once took to his feathers light, When lulled Argus, baffled, swooned and slept, So on a Delphic reed, ...
God of the golden bow, And of the golden lyre, And of the golden hair, And of the golden fire, ...
ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
It lies before me there, and my own breath Stirs its thin outer threads, as though beside The living head ...
What did I study in your School of Night? When your mouth's first unfathomable yes Opened your body to be ...
(roundel: variation of the rondeau consisting of three stanzas of three lines each, linked together with but two rhymes and ...
Lofty and enduring is the monument I've reared,-- Come, tempests, with your bitterness assailing; And thou, corrosive blasts of time, ...
I like a church, I like a cowl, I love a prophet of the soul, And on my heart monastic ...
Who ever loves, if he do not propose The right true end of love, he's one that goes To sea ...
Nero was not worried when he heard the prophecy of the Delphic Oracle. "Let him fear the seventy three years." ...
Can we not force from widow'd poetry, Now thou art dead (great Donne) one elegy To crown thy hearse? Why ...
We parted where the old gas-lamp still burned Under the wayside maple and walked on, Into the dark, as we ...
Do you remember, O Delphic Apollo, The sunset hour by the river, when Mickey M'Grew Cried, "There's a ghost," and ...
What needs my Shakespeare for his honored bones The labor of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallowed ...
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