La Dame Du Palais De La Reine (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
SOPHIE, in shocks of scarlet lace,Receives her usual embraceBeneath a hedge, behind a curtain,Or in the chambers of His Grace.Whether ...
SOPHIE, in shocks of scarlet lace,Receives her usual embraceBeneath a hedge, behind a curtain,Or in the chambers of His Grace.Whether ...
Ah, Needwood! I, whose early voiceTaught thy shrill echoes to rejoice;I, who first pour'd the sylvan songThy glades, thy banks, ...
Now, when our Lord was come to eighteen years,The King commanded that there should be builtThree stately houses, one of ...
I.WHAT shalt THOU know of Spring? A verdant crown Of young boughs waving o'er thy blooming head: White tufted Guelder-roses, ...
Throughout the city, and the lands around, Soon ran the rumour that, from Israel's God, Moses a word had brought ...
Behold, even I, even I am Beatrice.(Div. Com. Purg. xxx.)OF Florence and of BeatriceServant and singer from of old,O'er Dante's ...
Dearly beloved Countrymen and Friends, Accept the verse an half--starv'd Poet sends: Who scant of paper in these needy times, ...
At Cleversulzbach in the Underland A hundred and thirteen years did I stand Up on the tower in wind and ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
Of Hector's deeds did Homer sing,And of the sack of stately Troy, What griefs fair Helena did bring,Which was Sir ...
OBSERVE that tall pale Veteran! what a lookOf shame and guilt!--who cannot read that book?Misery and mirth are blended in ...
Eating, drinking, smoking, laughter,Reverly and wild to-do -They shake the inn from floor to rafterWith huzzahing and halloo.There Twardowski heads ...
You, General Cao Ba, descendant of Cao Cao,now live as a peasant, a cold-door commoner.Your ancestor's heroic age ...
Having consider'd thus what's to be done,The hazards, hardships, and the risque you run,Consider with what strength you are endow'd,What ...
The eye can hardly pick them out From the cold shade they shelter in, Till wind distresses tail and main; ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
The rhyme of the poet Modulates the king's affairs, Balance-loving nature Made all things in pairs. To every foot its ...
I Thy trivial harp will never please Or fill my craving ear; Its chords should ring as blows the breeze, ...
God made the wicked Grocer For a mystery and a sign, That men might shun the awful shops And go ...
'Twas on the 9th of September, a very beautiful day, That a numerous English army came in grand array, And ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
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