Jerusalem Delivered – Book 03 – part 01 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
THE ARGUMENT.The camp at great Jerusalem arrives:Clorinda gives them battle, in the breastOf fair Erminia Tancred's love revives,He jousts with ...
THE ARGUMENT.The camp at great Jerusalem arrives:Clorinda gives them battle, in the breastOf fair Erminia Tancred's love revives,He jousts with ...
XLVIThree times he strove to view Heaven's golden ray,And raised him on his feeble elbow thrice,And thrice he tumbled on ...
XLIGuelpho next them the land and place possest,Whose fortunes good with his great acts agree,By his Italian sire, fro the ...
LXXIAurora bright her crystal gates unbarred,And bridegroom-like forth stept the glorious sun,When trumpets loud and clarions shrill were heard,And every ...
LVIGuascher and Raiphe in valor like there was.The one and other Guido, famous both,Germer and Eberard to overpass,In foul oblivion ...
XIThus when the Lord discovered had, and seenThe hidden secrets of each worthy's breast,Out of the hierarchies of angels sheenThe ...
XXVI'Turks, Persians conquered, Antiochia won,Be glorious acts, and full of glorious praise,By Heaven's mere grace, not by our prowess done:Those ...
THE ARGUMENT.God sends his angel to Tortosa down,Godfrey unites the Christian Peers and Knights;And all the Lords and Princes of ...
Four lamps were burning o'er two mighty graves -Godfrey's and Baldwin's - Salem's Christian kings;And holy light glanced from Helena's ...
AUGUST 2, 1872WE welcome you, Lords of the Land of the Sun!The voice of the many sounds feebly through one;Ah! ...
PHI BETA KAPPAWENDELL PHILLIPS, ORATOR; CHARLES GODFREY LELAND, POET1881"THE Dutch have taken Holland,"--so the schoolboys used to say;The Dutch have ...
How strange if it should fall to you, To me, our boys should do the deedThe great Crusaders failed to do! To ...
When Kneller's works, of various grace,Were to fair Venus shown,The Goddess spied in every faceSome features of her own.Just so, ...
Godfrey Gordon Gustavus Gore -No doubt you have heard the name before -Was a boy who never would shut a ...
The Kings come riding back from the Crusade,The purple Kings and all their mounted men;They fill the street with clamorous ...
The Kings come riding back from the Crusade,The purple Kings and all their mounted men;They fill the street with clamorous ...
She sat, where on each wind that sigh'd, The citron's breath went by,While the red gold of eventide Burn'd in ...
He is known to the sun-white Majesties Who stand at the gates of dawn. He is known to the cloud-borne ...
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
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