Ecologue IX (Virgil Poems)
LYCIDAS, MOERISLycidas.Say whither, Moeris?- Make you for the town,Or on what errand bent?Moeris. O Lycidas,We have lived to see, what ...
LYCIDAS, MOERISLycidas.Say whither, Moeris?- Make you for the town,Or on what errand bent?Moeris. O Lycidas,We have lived to see, what ...
ON scent of game, from town to town he flew,soldier's curse pursued him on his way;Care in his eye, and ...
VANITY OF VANITIES.Le favole del mondo.The fables of the world have filched away The time I had for thinking upon God; His ...
The ghosts of all things past parade,Emerging from the mist and shadeThat hid them from our gaze,And, full of song ...
(To G. B. P.)I have filched a mite ob timeFo' de writin' ob dis rhyme.Seems I c'u'den do a thin' ...
In which calm home of happy life and loveLigged our Lord Buddha, knowing not of woe,Nor want, nor pain, nor ...
KNOW this : that through all time past Love hasbeenSo sweet that none could perish and not liveForthwith again.Ere Persia ...
HIM, wounded, shackled, pricked with spears,they dragged and goaded through thetown.Up the soaked hill 'neath dripping boughs, acrosssteep ditches slipping ...
Not yet! I thought this time 'twas done at last, the workings perfected, the life in it; and there's the ...
_AEschylus_--And by Jove, I'll not stop to cut up your verses word by ...
(Being Certain Fragments from Scheherazade's Songs in "The Thousand and One Nights")O Queen of Beauty, who hast conquered kings,O woman ...
Of all the gracious gifts of Spring, Is there another can safely surpass This delicate, voluptuous thing-- This ...
Ye are the Great White People, masters and lords of the earth,Spreading your stern dominion over the world's wide girth.Here, ...
Old Pete Parraday, he isn't very wise --Or so the local gossips say -- They love to criticise His crazy ...
Then former stars were faint and signs were fled. Dawn flamed and sleepers roused: you saw men's souls ...
CEASE to call him sad and sober, Merriest of months, October! Patron of the bursting bins, Reveler in wayside inns, ...
It is not over yet-the fightWhere those immortal dreamers failed.They stormed the citadels of night,And the night praised them-and prevailed.So ...
Cistercians might crack their sidesWith laughter, and exemption get,At sight of heroes clasping brides,And hearing--O the horn! the horn!The horn ...
We are very slightly changed From the semi-apes who ranged India's Prehistoric clay; He that drew the longest bow Ran ...
O! fair, sweet Phyllis and sweet, fair May, Which of you carried my heart away? Who has my heart? I ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
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