A Red Letter Day (Justin H. McCarthy Poems)
NOW God be praised for this enchanted day,Since joy was in the promise that it spelled,And joy in the fulfilment ...
NOW God be praised for this enchanted day,Since joy was in the promise that it spelled,And joy in the fulfilment ...
As late I rambled in the happy fields,What time the skylark shakes the tremulous dewFrom his lush clover covert;-when anewAdventurous ...
Inscription on a Picture Taken by Comrade Li JinAmid the growing shades of dusk stand sturdy pines,Riotous clouds sweep past, ...
I sing of horrors sad and dreadfull rage, Of stratagems wrought in the former age, Contagious vice, and in conclusion, ...
AN APOSTROPHE TO THE MOON.O, silvery moon, fair mistress of the night,Thou mellow, ever vaccilating orb,How many eons of unmeasured ...
Svch time as Tytan with his fiery beames In highest degree, made duskish Leo sweat Field-tilling Swains driue home their ...
Three young girls in friendship met;Mary, Martha, Margaret.Margaret was tall and fair,Martha shorter by a hair;If the first excelled in ...
St. Regimund, e'er he became a saint,Was much imbued with vulgar earthly taint;E'er he renounced the honors of a KnightAnd ...
As late I rambled in the happy fields, What time the skylark shakes the tremulous dew From his lush clover ...
I I saw a dead man's finer part Shining within each faithful heart Of those bereft. Then said I: "This ...
PASSION brings reason--who can ...
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
It was a fat-tyred 4WD utility hard back, the sort of ute you'd expect a contractor to drive, except it ...
The village of Penicuik, with its neighbouring spinning mills, Is most lovely to see, and the Pentland Hills; And though ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
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