Bacchus (Frank Dempster Sherman Poems)
Listen to the tawny thief,Hid beneath the waxen leaf,Growling at his fairy host,Bidding her with angry boastFill his cup with ...
Listen to the tawny thief,Hid beneath the waxen leaf,Growling at his fairy host,Bidding her with angry boastFill his cup with ...
That dog with daisies for eyes who flashes forth flame of his very self at every bark is the Dog ...
My mother-- preferring the strange to the tame: Dove-note, bone marrow, deer dung, Frog's belly distended with finny young, Leaf-mould ...
ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book ...
In the mid August, in the second year of my First Polar Expedition, the snow and ice of winter almost ...
[Goethe describes this much-admired Poem, which he wrote in honour of his love Lily, as being "designed to change his ...
Old Mr. Philosopher Comes for Ben and Claire, An ugly man, a tall man, With bright-red hair. The books that ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
NO better Dog e'er kept his Master's Door Than honest Snarl, who spar'd nor Rich nor Poor; But gave the ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to ...
Think of the storm roaming the sky uneasily like a dog looking for a place to sleep in, listen to ...
Down on the shore, on the sunny shore! Where the salt smell cheers the land; Where the tide moves bright ...
AGAINST THE GRAIN "Oxford be silent, I this truth must write Leeds hath for rarities undone thee quite." - William ...
O purblind race of miserable men, How many among us at this very hour Do forge a life-long trouble for ...
Leaping, leaping, leaping, down line by line, growling at the cadavers, filling the holy jugs with their piss, falling into ...
Before his lion-court, Impatient for the sport, King Francis sat one day; The peers of his realm sat around, And ...
I In barns we crouch, and under stacks of straw, Harking the storm that rides a hurtling legion Up the ...
The bell is set a-ringing, and the engine gives a toot, There's five-and-thirty shearers here a-shearing for the loot, So ...
I wish I had not got a cold, The wind is big and wild, I wish that I was very ...
"So pulse, and pulse, thou rhythmic-hearted Noon That liest, large-limbed, curved along the hills, In languid palpitation, half a-swoon With ...
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