The Common Joys (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
THESE joys are free to all who liveThe rich and poor, the great and low: The charms which kindness has ...
THESE joys are free to all who liveThe rich and poor, the great and low: The charms which kindness has ...
Such, and so differing is the characterOf the plebeian and philosopher.Now the proficient, he that labours onTowards perfection, by these ...
Republicans of differing views Are pro or con protection; If that's the issue they would choose, Why, we ...
From hence with grace and goodness compass'd round, God ruleth, blesseth, keepeth all he wrought, Above the air, the ...
What days await this woman, whose strange feetBreathe spells, whose presence makes men dream like wine,Tall, free and slender as ...
When in the widening circle of rebirthTo a new flesh my travelled soul shall come,And try again the unremembered earthWith ...
A drifting, April, twilight sky, A wind which blew the puddles dry, And slapped the river into waves That ran ...
Among the seeds, planted in the garden watered with the flowers, vegetables unwanted weeds, rocks of differing sizes, shapes unplanted, ...
Well then; the promis'd hour is come at last; The present age of wit obscures the past: Strong were our ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
the people are very small and shrink, dwarves on the way to netsuke hell bound for a flea circus in ...
Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow ...
To Monica Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a ...
In vain, fair Maid, you ask in vain, My pen should try th' advent'rous strain, And following truth's unalter'd law, ...
I am blind, you out there -- that is a curse, against one's will, a contradiction, a heavy daily burden. ...
OUT in the wastes of the West countrie, Out where the white stars shine, Grim and silent as such men ...
Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea, London has swept about you this score years And bright ships left ...
A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector That Providence which had so long the care ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
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