Beowulf (Episode 31) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
So held this king to the customs old,that I wanted for nought in the wage I gained,the meed of my ...
So held this king to the customs old,that I wanted for nought in the wage I gained,the meed of my ...
These lines are to thee; and they come from a heart, Which hath never to thee spoken aught but the ...
THE pilot's at the helm,Yon vessel's course to mark;Yet shall destruction soon o'erwhelmThe unsuspecting bark.Triumphant now she ridesUpon the treach'rous ...
'Tis now that softening hour When love hath deepest power, To stir the fond heart with its dreams of delight; ...
FROM THE NOVEL OF CELESTINA. WHERE cliffs arise by winter crown'd,And through dark groves of pine around,Down the deep chasms ...
THAT battle-toil bade he at burg to announce,at the fort on the cliff, where, full of sorrow,all the morning earls ...
My father's house once more,In its own moonlight beauty! yet around,Something, amidst the dewy calm profound,Broods, never marked before!Is it ...
O POWER Supreme! whose awful wordAgain commands th' avenging swordO'er guilty man to glare;Lord! while thy judgments yet impend,Before thy ...
No, helpless thing, I cannot harm thee now; Depart in peace, thy little life is safe,For I have scanned thy ...
What ails me? what impels me on, untilThe big drops fall from off my brow? Whence comesThis strange affliction?--Oh, thus ...
Sinners, obey the gospel-word!Haste to the supper of my Lord!Be wise to know your gracious day;All things are ready, come ...
OH ! that amid this wandering maze of care,Where short-liv'd pleasure meets o'erwhelming woeAt every turn; e'en where bright virtue ...
AH! Summer, why so long delay'dThy wonted influence? Why afraidThy laughing face to shew?Instead of full prolific beams,Thy countenance but ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
God's conduct of Israel, and the plagues of Egypt. Give thanks to God, invoke his name, And tell the world ...
O'erwhelming sorrow now demands my song: From death the overwhelming sorrow sprung. What flowing tears? What hearts with grief opprest? ...
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
SWIFT o'er the bounding deep the VESSEL glides, Its streamers flutt'ring in the summer gales, The lofty mast the breezy ...
'Twas at the Seige of Matagarda, during the Peninsular War, That a Mrs Reston for courage outshone any man there ...
A vine from noblest lineage sprung And with the choicest clusters hung, In purple rob'd, reclining lay, And catch'd the ...
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