An Epistle From A Student At Oxford To The Chevalier (Nicholas Amhurst Poems)
While You, dread Sir, whom partial Heav'n denies,The fruitful Vineyard and Cis--Alpine Skies,O'er frozen Heights and chilling Desarts stray,Far from ...
While You, dread Sir, whom partial Heav'n denies,The fruitful Vineyard and Cis--Alpine Skies,O'er frozen Heights and chilling Desarts stray,Far from ...
Why do I sigh to find Life's evening shadows gathering round my way? The keen eye dimming, and the buoyant mind Unhinging day ...
When it is meet for rest to be our guideAnd for a while set every care aside,A memory of my ...
I touch but the things which are near; The heavens are too high for my reach: In shadow and symbol and creed, I ...
In aunciente days, tradition showes,A base and wicked elfe arose,The Witch of Wokey hight:Oft have I heard the fearfull tale,From ...
Let bushmen think as bushmen will, And say whate'er they choose,I hate to hear the stupid sneer At New Chum Jackaroos.He may ...
Where is the spirit of striving that once was so strong in my heart?And where is the lofty devotion that ...
Oppressed with unbelief and sin,Fightings without, and fears within;While earth and hell, with force combined,Assault and terrify my mind.What strength ...
(from the French of Wenceslas, Duke of Brabant and Luxembourg, who died in 1384.)I cannot tell, of twain beneath this ...
S' un casto amor.If love be chaste, if virtue conquer ill, If fortune bind both lovers in one bond, If either at ...
MANY a graven gem, besetWith gold, is worn as an amuletIn the far-off climes of the East,—a charmTo preserve the ...
I.WHAT shalt THOU know of Spring? A verdant crown Of young boughs waving o'er thy blooming head: White tufted Guelder-roses, ...
You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone?Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler ...
Each in his narrow cell forever laid,The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.—Gray's ElegyThe mist lies on Glen Aymer hill, ...
Because I hold it sinful to despond, And will not let the bitterness of life ...
INTO the night go one and all,A poet sang (as a poet may);Into the Night beyond recall,He told how the ...
On a lonely selection far out in the West An old woman works all the day without rest, And she ...
If the Led Striker call it a strike, Or the papers call it a war, They know not much what ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
Far beyond the sunrise and the sunset rises Heaven, with worlds on worlds that lighten and respond: Thought can see ...
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