THE LILY IN A CRYSTAL (Robert Herrick Poem)
You have beheld a smiling rose When virgins' hands have drawn O'er it a cobweb-lawn: And here, you see, this ...
You have beheld a smiling rose When virgins' hands have drawn O'er it a cobweb-lawn: And here, you see, this ...
Till I shall come again, let this suffice, I send my salt, my sacrifice To thee, thy lady, younglings, and ...
Through vaults of pain, Enribbed and wrought with groins of ghastliness, I passed, and garish spectres moved my brain To ...
THE look that thy sweet eyes on mine impress The pledge thy lips to mine convey,--the kiss,-- He who, like ...
[This Cantata was written for Prince Frederick of Gotha, and set to music by Winter, the Prince singing the part ...
BUSH and vale thou fill'st again With thy misty ray, And my spirit's heavy chain Castest far away. Thou dost ...
unlimited, infinite more than seventy time seven the forgiveness called for that we must extend following the example of Christ ...
Fear not, Mary; believe in me, Martha. Trust that I can raise him, bring Lazarus from the dead The belief ...
We celebrate once again the bravery of those certain men who saw what they had to do and though they ...
I'M now disposed to give a pretty tale; Love laughs at what I've sworn and will prevail; Men, gods, and ...
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 ...
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
Man was made of social earth, Child and brother from his birth; Tethered by a liquid cord Of blood through ...
To Admiration Marvel not, Love, though I thy power admire, Ravish'd a world beyond the farthest thought, And knowing more ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the God of Love was born: I cannot ...
Nature affects to be sedate Upon occasion, grand But let our observation shut Her practices extend To Necromancy and the ...
My beloved called to me to come and see Steve's tears, he was crying on TV; Steve Irwin, The Crocodile ...
Begin, my muse, the imitative lay, Aonian doxies sound the thrumming string; Attempt no number of the plaintive Gay, Let ...
Recite the loves of Narva and Mored The priest of Chalma's triple idol said. High from the ground the youthful ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
"How shall I be a poet? How shall I write in rhyme? You told me once the very wish Partook ...
Inviting the influence of a young lady upon the opening year You wear the morning like your dress And are ...
I. Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll ...
Behold me, in my chiffon, gauze, and tinsel, Flitting out of the shadow into the spotlight, And into the shadow ...
Well, as you say, we live for small horizons: We move in crowds, we flow and talk together, Seeing so ...
Two lovers, here at the corner, by the steeple, Two lovers blow together like music blowing: And the crowd dissolves ...
The snow floats down upon us, mingled with rain . . . It eddies around pale lilac lamps, and falls ...
MY lord, I know your noble ear Woe ne'er assails in vain; Embolden'd thus, I beg you'll hear Your humble ...
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