The Manuscript of Saint Alexius (Augusta Davies Webster Poems)
There came a child into the solemn hall where great Pope Innocent sat throned and heard angry disputings on Free-Will ...
There came a child into the solemn hall where great Pope Innocent sat throned and heard angry disputings on Free-Will ...
An ode after Easter.Cast wide the folding doorways of the East,For now is light increased!And the wind-besomed chambers of the ...
In Carleile dwelt King Arthur,A prince of passing might;And there maintain'd his Table Round,Beset with many a knight.And there he ...
IThe prime of summer is coming, and with it there comes, to-day,A thought of another summer, whose garlands have faded ...
Once upon a recent even, as I lay in fitful slumber,Weaving dreams and seeing visions vague and utterly absurd,Suddenly I ...
Fair Estelle.* * * * *Tho' all neglected now, the time hath beenWhen yon wide pleasaunce was the loveliest scene;When ...
So held this king to the customs old,that I wanted for nought in the wage I gained,the meed of my ...
HROTHGAR spake, — to the hall he went,stood by the steps, the steep roof saw,garnished with gold, and Grendel's hand: ...
I.IT is not Love, this beautiful unrest,This tremor of longing that invades my breast:For Love is in his grave this ...
I'll sing you a new ballad, and I'll warrant it first-rate,Of the days of that old gentleman who had that ...
UNFERTH spake, the son of Ecglaf,who sat at the feet of the Scyldings' lord,unbound the battle-runes . — Beowulf's quest,sturdy ...
Around, how joyful in the chilly air Sweet sounds are floating! While above, the sky, Peopled with visions bright, seems ...
For these of old the trader Unpearled the Indian seas,The nations of the nadir Were diamondless for these; A people ...
The brother knew well the castle old,Every closet, each outlook fair,Every turret and bartizan bold,Every chamber, garnished or bare.The brother ...
The Pobble who has no toes Had once as many as we; When they said "Some day you may lose ...
Too late, alas! the song To remedy the wrong; -- The rooms are taken from us, swept and garnished for ...
CHORUS: O suitably-attired-in-leather-boots Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom Whence by what way how purposed art thou come To ...
Maud Muller on a summer's day Raked the meadow sweet with hay. Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth Of ...
Ruins in Rome are four a penny, And here along the Appian Way I see the monuments of many Esteemed ...
CANTO IIII To sinfull house of Pride, Duessa guides the faithfull knight, Where brothers death to wreak Sansjoy doth chalenge ...
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