Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
As a pale phantom with a lamp Ascends some ruin's haunted stair, So glides the moon along the damp Mysterious ...
I. HOw comes the Day orecast ? the Flaming Sun Darkn'd at Noon, as if his Course were run ? ...
WHen first Alexis did in Verse delight, His Muse in Low, but Graceful Numbers walk't, And now and then a ...
Nymph of the downward smile and sidelong glance! In what diviner moments of the day Art thou most lovely?-when gone ...
THOUGH beauty be the mark of praise, And yours of whom I sing be such As not the world can ...
It cannot be. Where is that mighty joy, Which just now took up all my heart? Lord, if thou must ...
The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
We learned the Whole of Love -- The Alphabet -- the Words -- A Chapter -- then the mighty Book ...
The Soul that hath a Guest Doth seldom go abroad -- Diviner Crowd at Home -- Obliterate the need -- ...
The Love a Life can show Below Is but a filament, I know, Of that diviner thing That faints upon ...
The Beggar at the Door for Fame Were easily supplied But Bread is that Diviner thing Disclosed to be denied ...
Not that We did, shall be the test When Act and Will are done But what Our Lord infers We ...
My Triumph lasted till the Drums Had left the Dead alone And then I dropped my Victory And chastened stole ...
I learned -- at least -- what Home could be -- How ignorant I had been Of pretty ways of ...
Exhilaration -- is within -- There can no Outer Wine So royally intoxicate As that diviner Brand The Soul achieves ...
Color -- Caste -- Denomination -- These -- are Time's Affair -- Death's diviner Classifying Does not know they are ...
'Not by the justice that my father spurn'd, Not for the thousands whom my father slew, Altars unfed and temples ...
HER flowing locks, the raven's wing, Adown her neck and bosom hing; How sweet unto that breast to cling, And ...
HEARKEN, oh hearken! let your souls behind you Turn, gently moved! Our voices feel along the Dread to find you, ...
We sow the glebe, we reap the corn, We build the house where we may rest, And then, at moments, ...
Beat the squares with the tramp of rebels! Higher, rangers of haughty heads! We'll wash the world with a second ...
LORD BUDDHA, on thy Lotus-throne, With praying eyes and hands elate, What mystic rapture dost thou own, Immutable and ultimate? ...
Oft have I brooded on defeat and pain, The pathos of the stupid, stumbling throng. These I ignore to-day and ...
"O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head: We're all for ...
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