Things That Never Die (Charles Dickens Poem)
The pure, the bright, the beautiful that stirred our hearts in youth, The impulses to wordless prayer, The streams of ...
The pure, the bright, the beautiful that stirred our hearts in youth, The impulses to wordless prayer, The streams of ...
Sent to a friend who had complained that I was glad enough to see him when he came, but didn't ...
Man Naturally loves delay, And to procrastinate; Business put off from day to day Is always done to late. Let ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
O THOU, whose stern command and precepts pure (Tho' agony in every vein should start, And slowly drain the blood-drops ...
The angel of self-discipline, her guardian Since she first knew and had to go away From home that spring to ...
I am a young executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner; I have a Slimline brief-case and I use the ...
Love, indeed thy strength is mighty Thus, alone, such strife to bear -- Three 'gainst one, and never ceasing -- ...
I have gone backward in the work, The labour has not sped, Drowsy and dark my spirit lies, Heavy and ...
Fair was the evening and brightly the sun Was shining on desert and grove, Sweet were the breezes and balmy ...
Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee, With promise of strength and manhood full and fair! Though cold ...
NOT in scorn do I reprove thee, Not in pride thy vows I waive, But, believe, I could not love ...
What is she writing? Watch her now, How fast her fingers move ! How eagerly her youthful brow Is bent ...
How beautiful the earth is still, To thee - how full of happiness! How little fraught with real ill, Or ...
I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, ...
Come, let us tell the weeds in ditches How we are poor, who once had riches, And lie out in ...
"Ah, did you once see Shelley plain?" -- Browning. "Shelley? Oh, yes, I saw him often then," The old man ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Titan! to whose immortal eyes The sufferings of mortality, Seen in their sad reality, Were not as things that gods ...
WHEN Juan sought the subterranean flood, And paid his obolus on the Stygian shore, Charon, the proud and sombre beggar, ...
I love the naked ages long ago When statues were gilded by Apollo, When men and women of agility Could ...
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs, The not-incurious in God's handiwork (This man's-flesh he hath admirably made, Blown like a ...
Never the time and the place And the loved one all together! This path--how soft to pace! This May -- ...
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
That second time they hunted me From hill to plain, from shore to sea, And Austria, hounding far and wide ...
FY, let us a' to Kirkcudbright, For there will be bickerin' there; For Murray's light horse are to muster, And ...
More towers must yet be built-more towers destroyed- Great rocks hoisted in air; And he must seek his bread in ...
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