Postponement (Thomas Hardy Poem)
SNOW-BOUND in woodland, a mournful word, Dropt now and then from the bill of a bird, Reached me on wind-wafts; ...
SNOW-BOUND in woodland, a mournful word, Dropt now and then from the bill of a bird, Reached me on wind-wafts; ...
"OLD Norbert with the flat blue cap-- A German said to be-- Why let your pipe die on your lap, ...
A Pindaric Ode Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A ...
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play, Which oft resumes its fascinating sway; Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
The Lightning is a yellow Fork From Tables in the sky By inadvertent fingers dropt The awful Cutlery Of mansions ...
The Day grew small, surrounded tight By early, stooping Night -- The Afternoon in Evening deep Its Yellow shortness dropt ...
She lay as if at play Her life had leaped away -- Intending to return -- But not so soon ...
She rose to His Requirement -- dropt The Playthings of Her Life To take the honorable Work Of Woman, and ...
Just Once! Oh least Request! Could Adamant refuse So small a Grace So scanty put, Such agonizing terms? Would not ...
It bloomed and dropt, a Single Noon -- The Flower -- distinct and Red -- I, passing, thought another Noon ...
I was a Phoebe -- nothing more -- A Phoebe -- nothing less -- The little note that others dropt ...
Escape is such a thankful Word I often in the Night Consider it unto myself No spectacle in sight Escape ...
She went as quiet as the Dew From an Accustomed flower. Not like the Dew, did she return At the ...
'Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch, That nearer, every Day, Kept narrowing its boiling Wheel Until the Agony Toyed ...
On Tiber's banks, Tiber, whose waters glide In slow meanders down to Gaigra's side; And circling all the horrid mountain ...
I flung my soul to the air like a falcon flying. I said, "Wait on, wait on, while I ride ...
Henry sats in de bar & was odd, off in the glass from the glass, at odds wif de world ...
A Small Dream It was only a small dream of the Golden World, now you trot off to bed. I'll ...
ADMIRING Nature in her wildest grace, These northern scenes with weary feet I trace; O'er many a winding dale and ...
Chequer'd with woven shadows as I lay Among the grass, blinking the watery gleam, I saw an Echo-Spirit in his ...
MY father was a farmer upon the Carrick border, O, And carefully he bred me in decency and order, O; ...
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