Sermon in a Churchyard (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
Let pious Damon take his seat,With mincing step and languid smile,And scatter from his 'kerchief sweet,Sabaean odours o'er the aisle;And ...
Let pious Damon take his seat,With mincing step and languid smile,And scatter from his 'kerchief sweet,Sabaean odours o'er the aisle;And ...
A voice of grave, deep emphasis Is in the woods to-night;No sound of radiant day is this, No cadence of the light.Here ...
Phantom streams were in the distance — mocking lights of lake and pool —Ghosts of trees of soft green lustre ...
GIFTED of Heaven! who hast, in days gone by,Moved every heart, delighted every eye,While age and youth, of high and ...
To be a Negro in a day like this Demands forgiveness. Bruised with blow on blow,Betrayed, like him whose woe dimmed ...
It was a late book given up for lostagain and again with its sentencesbare at last and phrases that seemed ...
Come, Resignation! wipe the human tear,Domestic anguish drops o'er Virtue's bier;Bid selfish sorrow hush the fond complaint,Nor, from the God she ...
A keen, insistent hint of dawnFell from the mountain height;A wan, uncertain gleam betrayedThe faltering of the night.The emphasis of ...
Ah me! what mighty perils waitThe man who meddles with a state,Whether to strengthen, or oppose!False are his friends, and ...
IIn Nino's chamber not a sound intrudesUpon the midnight's tingling silentness,Where Nino sits before his book and broods,Thin and brow-burdened ...
Comme dans l'?ponge il y a dans l'orange une aspiration ? reprendre contenance apr?s avoir subi l'?preuve de l'expression. Mais ...
Eight Parts of Speech this Day wear Mourning GownsDeclin'd Verbs, Pronouns, Participles, Nouns.And not declined, Adverbs and Conjunctions,In Lillies Porch ...
To the Superior World to Solemn PeaceTo Regions where Delights shall never ceaseTo Living Springs and to Celestial shadeFor change ...
One Sunday eve a grave old man, Who had not been at church, did say,"Eliza, tell me, if you can, ...
One day, in ages dark and dim,A toiler, weary, worn and faint,Who found his task too much for him,Gave voice ...
ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book ...
WEBSTER was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
I. THEIR BASIC SAVAGERY Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable, Sagged and reeled and ...
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