The Medal (John Dryden Poem)
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
After the pangs of a desperate lover, When day and night I have sighed all in vain, Ah, what a ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
Feed a flame within, which so torments me That it both pains my heart, and yet contains me: 'Tis such ...
Heart of France for a hundred years, Passionate, sensitive, proud, and strong, Quick to throb with her hopes and fears, ...
I am two fools, I know- For loving, and for saying so In whining poetry; But where's that wiseman that ...
Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deny'st me is; It sucked me first, ...
Sweet Mountains -- Ye tell Me no lie -- Never deny Me -- Never fly -- Those same unvarying Eyes ...
Forget! The lady with the Amulet Forget she wore it at her Heart Because she breathed against Was Treason twixt? ...
Endow the Living -- with the Tears -- You squander on the Dead, And They were Men and Women -- ...
Do People moulder equally, They bury, in the Grave? I do believe a Species As positively live As I, who ...
If your Nerve, deny you -- Go above your Nerve -- He can lean against the Grave, If he fear ...
We were water babes, born in the arms of a sparkling brook that patiently took us into its heart. At ...
There's an infinity of wisdom in your smile that would deny the winsome wit that lies at back of it; ...
Colours fade into nameless shades of grey and where the tonsure of bas-relief crudely stands effete, semantic symbolism degrades into ...
The biker was a menace on the farm, a madman bent on speed, intent on leaving all for dead (it ...
It's a ruling from the field of pain (devoid of antique nave, a judgement process aptly named 'benefit of doubt'); ...
LOVE, thou are absolute, sole Lord Of life and death. To prove the word, We'll now appeal to none of ...
Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Locked up from ...
To keep the lamp alive, With oil we fill the bowl; 'Tis water makes the willow thrive, And grace that ...
I am that hawk of gold Proud in adamantine poise On the pillars of torqoise, See,beyond ...
I am that hawk of gold Proud in adamantine poise On the pillars of torqoise, See,beyond ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
"DON'T they consult the 'Victims,' though?" I said. "They should, by rights, Give them a chance - because, you know, ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Ye scenes of my childhood, whose lov'd recollection Embitters the present, compar'd with the past; Where science first dawn'd on ...
Why, Pigot, complain of this damsel's disdain, Why thus in despair do you fret? For months you may try, yet, ...
Eliza, what fools are the Mussulman sect, Who to woman deny the soul's future existence! Could they see thee, Eliza, ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
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