The Sultan’s Palace (Alan Seeger Poems)
My spirit only lived to look on Beauty's face,As only when they clasp the arms seem served aright;As in their ...
My spirit only lived to look on Beauty's face,As only when they clasp the arms seem served aright;As in their ...
"TELL me, O tell, what kind of thing is Wit, Thou who Master art ...
Speak, satire; for there's none can tell like thee Whether 'tis folly, pride, or knavery That makes this discontented ...
(OPENING OF THE PACIFIC RAILROAD)What was it the Engines said,Pilots touching,--head to headFacing on the single track,Half a world behind ...
WHEN Heav'n the soul requires, not florid youth,Nor Nature's gilts, by Art improv'd, can save;Yon awful knell proclaims the solemn ...
Messieurs, le Dieu des peintres: We felt odd:'Twas Rubens, sculptured. A mean florid churchWas the next thing we saw,-from vane ...
Amid the florid multitude her face Was like the full moon seen behind the lace Of orchard boughs where clouded ...
If I should boast I wealthier am than you,It follows not that I am better too;If I should say, I'm ...
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest ...
1 OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys, Leaning back in their open barouches, ...
A city clerk, but gently born and bred; His wife, an unknown artist's orphan child-- One babe was theirs, a ...
Morn in the wake of the morning star Came furrowing all the orient into gold. We rose, and each by ...
First, London, for its myriads; for its height, Manhattan heaped in towering stalagmite; But Paris for the smoothness of the ...
Amid the florid multitude her face Was like the full moon seen behind the lace Of orchard boughs where clouded ...
My spirit only lived to look on Beauty's face, As only when they clasp the arms seem served aright; As ...
Before the florid portico I watched the gamblers come and go, While by me on a bench there sat A ...
Since you remember Nimmo, and arrive At such a false and florid and far drawn Confusion of odd nonsense, I ...
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
The black bull bellowed before the sea. The sea, till that day orderly, Hove up against Bendylaw. The queen in ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
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