There was an old man on the Border (Edward Lear Poem)
There was an old man on the Border, Who lived in the utmost disorder; He danced with the cat, and ...
There was an old man on the Border, Who lived in the utmost disorder; He danced with the cat, and ...
'Twixt the coastline and the border lay the town of Grog-an'-Grumble In the days before the bushman was a dull ...
You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis, He, the handsome Yenadizze, Whom the people called the Storm-Fool, Vexed the village with disturbance; ...
For Ann London As you described your mastectomy in calm detail and bared your chest so I might see the ...
Blest be the God of love, Who gave me eyes, and light, and power this day, Both to be busy, ...
When my devotions could not pierce Thy silent ears; Then was my heart broken, as was my verse: My breast ...
A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness: A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine ...
A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness; A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine ...
(roundel: variation of the rondeau consisting of three stanzas of three lines each, linked together with but two rhymes and ...
Good people all, with one accord Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word,- From those who spoke ...
EXAMPLE often proves of sov'reign use; At other times it cherishes abuse; 'Tis not my purpose, howsoe'er, to tell Which ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
WITH such a Pulse, with such disorder'd Veins, Such lab'ring Breath, as thy Disease constrains; With failing Eyes, that scarce ...
When such a day, blesst the Arcadian plaine, Warm without Sun, and shady without rain, Fann'd by an air, that ...
Liner Notes - (From Love Is A Dog From Hell) Emotional Idiocy is obviously a theme close to my heart ...
This house which is lived in resounds with the chorus of voices bound in the press of its generous, unconcealed ...
Eclogue the First. Whanne Englonde, smeethynge from her lethal wounde, From her galled necke dyd twytte the chayne awaie, Kennynge ...
It's coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen Square. It's coming from the feel that ...
O! Und dann wieder dies Bei-sich-selbst-Sein! Diese Stummheiten! Dies Getriebenwerden! .................................................................................. O! And then to be with -our -very -selves! ...
Indeed I live in the dark ages! A guileless word is an absurdity. A smooth forehead betokens A hard heart. ...
To the cities I came in a time of disorder That was ruled by hunger. I sheltered with the people ...
How blest the land that counts among Her sons so many good and wise, To execute great feats of tongue ...
Old Pussy-cat if he won't eat, he don't feel good into his tum', old Pussy-cat. He wants to have eaten. ...
1) An individual spider web identifies a species: an order of instinct prevails through all accidents of circumstance, though possibility ...
a girlfriend came in built me a bed scrubbed and waxed the kitchen floor scrubbed the walls vacuumed cleaned the ...
Unspeakable. The word that fills up the poem, that the head tries to excise. At 6 a.m., the wet lion. ...
Daphnis must from Chloe part: Now is come the dismal Hour That must all his Hopes devour, All his Labour, ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
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