THE OCCULTATION OF ORION (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
I saw, as in a dream sublime, The balance in the hand of Time. O'er East and West its beam ...
I saw, as in a dream sublime, The balance in the hand of Time. O'er East and West its beam ...
In the valley of the Pegnitz, where across broad meadow-lands Rise the blue Franconian mountains, Nuremberg, the ancient, stands. Quaint ...
Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; ...
Oh, glorious are the guarded heights Where guardian souls abide-- Self-exiled from our gross delights-- Above, beyond, outside: An ampler ...
"ONCE in so often," King Solomon said, Watching his quarrymen drill the stone, "We will curb our garlic and wine ...
This poem is not addressed to you. You may come into it briefly, But no one will find you here, ...
Boaz, overcome with weariness, by torchlight made his pallet on the threshing floor where all day he had worked, and ...
Brooding on the eightieth letter of Fors Clavigera, I speak this in memory of my grandmother, whose childhood and prime ...
The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair, There's men from the barn and the forge ...
Laybrother of the Society of Jesus Honour is flashed off exploit, so we say; And those strokes once that gashed ...
Laybrother of the Society of Jesus Honour is flashed off exploit, so we say; And those strokes once that gashed ...
Felix Randal the farrier, O he is dead then? my duty all ended, Who have watched his mould of man, ...
And an old priest said, "Speak to us of Religion." And he said: Have I spoken this day of aught ...
Happy to consider the profound difference the freedoms we cherish to pray for their struggle to shake off the yoke ...
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled): Six months his better half he left with child, A simple, comely, ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Trees in groves, Kine in droves, In ocean sport the scaly herds, Wedge-like cleave the air the birds, To northern ...
My heart the anvil where my thoughts do beat; My words the hammers fashioning my desire; My breast the forge ...
(Song for the City College of New York) O youngest of the giant brood Of cities far-renowned; In wealth and ...
Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? Then crouch within the door -- Red -- is the Fire's ...
By a flower -- By a letter -- By a nimble love -- If I weld the Rivet faster -- ...
A forge burns in my heart. I am redder than dawn, Deeper than seaweed, More distant than gulls, More hollow ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
``With Donne, whose muse on dromedary trots, Wreathe iron pokers into true-love knots ; Rhyme's sturdy cripple, fancy's maze and ...
Out of the nothingness of sleep, The slow dreams of Eternity, There was a thunder on the deep: I came, ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
(PIANO DI SORRENTO.) Fortu, Frotu, my beloved one, Sit here by my side, On my knees put up both little ...
THOU, Liberty, thou art my theme; Not such as idle poets dream, Who trick thee up a heathen goddess That ...
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