The Canonization (John Donne Poem)
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsy, or my gout, My five grey ...
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsy, or my gout, My five grey ...
Whatever it is -- she has tried it -- Awful Father of Love -- Is not Ours the chastising -- ...
Once more, my now bewildered Dove Bestirs her puzzled wings Once more her mistress, on the deep Her troubled question ...
O THOU undaunted daughter of desires! By all thy dower of lights and fires; By all the eagle in thee, ...
To wash an Ethiope; He's wash'd, his gloomy skin a peaceful shade, For his white soul is made; And now, ...
I sing the Name which None can say But touch't with An interiour Ray: The Name of our New Peace; ...
LO here a little volume, but great Book A nest of new-born sweets; Whose native fires disdaining To ly thus ...
O heart, the equal poise of love's both parts, Big alike with wounds and darts, Live in these conquering leaves; ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
(Hebrews, iv.2) Israel in ancient days Not only had a view Of Sinai in a blaze, But learn'd the Gospel ...
(Genesis, v.24) Oh! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame; A light to shine upon the ...
My hands have not touched pleasure since your hands, -- No, -- nor my lips freed laughter since 'farewell', And ...
Come, my darling, let us dance To the moon that beckons us To dissolve our love in trance Heedless of ...
Your hair was full of roses in the dewfall as we danced, The sorceress enchanting and the paladin entranced, In ...
Pale as the night that pales In the dawn's pearl-pure pavillion, I wait for thee, ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
Come, my darling, let us dance To the moon that beckons us To dissolve our love in trance Heedless of ...
Your hair was full of roses in the dewfall as we danced, The sorceress enchanting and the paladin entranced, In ...
Pale as the night that pales In the dawn's pearl-pure pavillion, I wait for thee, ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
The birds they sang at the break of day Start again I heard them say Don't dwell on what has ...
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
'Tis evening; the black snail has got on his track, And gone to its nest is the wren, And the ...
The winter comes; I walk alone, I want no bird to sing; To those who keep their hearts their own ...
Ferdinand was systematic when he drove his daughter mad. With a Casanova's careful art, he moved slowly, stole only one ...
Poor restless dove, I pity thee; And when I hear thy plaintive moan, I mourn for thy captivity, And in ...
Poor restless dove, I pity thee; And when I hear thy plaintive moan, I mourn for thy captivity, And in ...
As loving hind that (hartless) wants her deer, Scuds through the woods and fern with hark'ning ear, Perplext, in every ...
There is darkness behind the light -- and the pale light drips Cold on vague shapes and figures, that, half-seen ...
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