Midnight Mass for the Dying Year (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Yes, the Year is growing old, And his eye is pale and bleared! Death, with frosty hand and cold, Plucks ...
Yes, the Year is growing old, And his eye is pale and bleared! Death, with frosty hand and cold, Plucks ...
LOng my dull Muse in heavy slumbers lay, Indulging Sloth, and to soft Ease gave way, Her Fill of Rest ...
When I was a King and a Mason -- a Master proven and skilled -- I cleared me ground for ...
Read here: This is the story of Evarra -- man -- Maker of Gods in lands beyond the sea. Because ...
I have abhorred the wars and despised the liars, laughed at the frightened And forecast victory; never one moment's doubt. ...
What is unwisdom but the lusting after Longevity: to be old and full of days! For the vast and unremitting ...
--AND, cruel maid, because I see You scornful of my love, and me, I'll trouble you no more, but go ...
Am I despised, because you say; And I dare swear, that I am gray? Know, Lady, you have but your ...
I WILL be faithful to thee; aye, I will! And Death shall choose me with a wondering eye That he ...
(a) they seek to celebrate the word not to bring their knives out on a poem dissecting it to find ...
[The following explanation is necessary, in order to make this ode in any way intelligible. The Poet is supposed to ...
WHAT time our Lord still walk'd the earth, Unknown, despised, of humble birth, And on Him many a youth attended ...
To tag, or not to tag: that is the problem: Whether 'tis nobler in the whole to endure The slings ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that ...
Because you love me I have much achieved, Had you despised me then I must have failed, But since I ...
Oh how I love Thy holy Word, Thy gracious covenant, O Lord! It guides me in the peaceful way; I ...
God of my life, to Thee I call, Afflicted at Thy feet I fall; When the great water-floods prevail, Leave ...
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
A week before the Armistice, you died. They did not keep your heart like Livingstone's, then plant your bones near ...
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
O God! if this indeed be all That Life can show to me; If on my aching brow may fall ...
Oh, thy bright eyes must answer now, When Reason, with a scornful brow, Is mocking at my overthrow! Oh, thy ...
O, thy bright eyes must answer now, When Reason, with a scornful brow, Is mocking at my overthrow! O, thy ...
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to ...
But do not let us quarrel any more, No, my Lucrezia; bear with me for once: Sit down and all ...
At four o'clock in the gun-metal blue dark we hear the first crow of the first cock just below the ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
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