Heroic Stanzas (John Dryden Poem)
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver, Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc. ...
Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of His Most Serene and Renowned Highness, Oliver, Late Lord Protector of This Commonwealth, etc. ...
Well then; the promis'd hour is come at last; The present age of wit obscures the past: Strong were our ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
(Song for the City College of New York) O youngest of the giant brood Of cities far-renowned; In wealth and ...
Heart of France for a hundred years, Passionate, sensitive, proud, and strong, Quick to throb with her hopes and fears, ...
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
O Music hast thou only heard The laughing river, the singing bird, The murmuring wind in the poplar-trees,-- Nothing but ...
Stand fast, Great Britain! Together England, Scotland, Ireland stand One in the faith that makes a mighty land, True to ...
I love thine inland seas, Thy groves of giant trees, Thy rolling plains; Thy rivers' mighty sweep, Thy mystic canyons ...
When I am dead, and doctors know not why, And my friends' curiosity Will have me cut up to survey ...
In England once there lived a big And wonderfully clever pig. To everybody it was plain That Piggy had a ...
Under the Light, yet under, Under the Grass and the Dirt, Under the Beetle's Cellar Under the Clover's Root, Further ...
Size circumscribes -- it has no room For petty furniture -- The Giant tolerates no Gnat For Ease of Gianture ...
Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a giant were withheld Were ...
I thought that nature was enough Till Human nature came But that the other did absorb As Parallax a Flame ...
I should not dare to be so sad So many Years again -- A Load is first impossible When we ...
The Wind begun to rock the Grass With threatening Tunes and low -- He threw a Menace at the Earth ...
A single Screw of Flesh Is all that pins the Soul That stands for Deity, to Mine, Upon my side ...
If your Nerve, deny you -- Go above your Nerve -- He can lean against the Grave, If he fear ...
I was schooled well before he died, able at least to feel what others felt when their fathers were deceased. ...
THE worm, the rich worm, has a noble domain In the field that is stored with its millions of slain ...
Can we not force from widow'd poetry, Now thou art dead (great Donne) one elegy To crown thy hearse? Why ...
Though giant rains put out the sun, Here stand I for a sign. Though earth be filled with waters dark, ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
O race that Cæsar knew, That won stern Roman praise, What land not envies you The laurel of these days? ...
Fair was the evening and brightly the sun Was shining on desert and grove, Sweet were the breezes and balmy ...
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