An Unanswerable Apology For The Rich. (Mary Barber Poems)
All--bounteous Heav'n, Castalio cries,With bended Knees, and lifted Eyes,When shall I have the Pow'r to bless,And raise up Merit in ...
All--bounteous Heav'n, Castalio cries,With bended Knees, and lifted Eyes,When shall I have the Pow'r to bless,And raise up Merit in ...
Awake,ye forms of verse divine! Painting! descend on canvas wing,-And hover o'er my head, Design! Your son, your glorious son, I sing;At ...
Way down in Greenwich VillageThere's something, 'twould appear,Demoralizing in the atmosphere.Quite ordinary people,Who come to live down here,Get changed to ...
Like thine own Album, which lies here before me, Life is a volume. Sweetly some are writ In sanctity; as when mild ...
GUIDO CAVALCANTI TO DANTE ALIGHIERI:Returning from its daily quest, my SpiritChanged thoughts and vile in thee doth weep to find:It ...
DANTE ALIGHIERI TO GUIDO CAVALCANTI:Guido, I would that Lapo, thou, and I,Led by some strong enchantment, might ascendA magic ship, ...
THE SPAGNOLETTO.DRAMATIS PERSONAE.DON JOHN of AUSTRIA.JOSEF RIBERA, the Spagnoletto.LORENZO, noble young Italian artist, pupil of Ribera.DON TOMMASO MANZANO.LUCA, servant to ...
Oh! hideous fiend, of form uncouth, With jaundic'd eye, and canker'd tooth, Fell Envy, why dost thou profane The labours ...
Hast thou a scene that is not spreadWith records of thy glory fled?A monument that doth not tellThe tale of ...
Only a few short years ago, there satA youth on one of old Rome's seven hills,Beneath a ruined temple, and ...
O beautiful woman, too well we know The terrible weight of thy woman's woe, So great that the world, in ...
Guido Sebaldi the mason Worked at a house of stone:Guido Sebaldi the mason Sand at his work alone.Till ...
("The Crucifixion," by Guido Reni, in S. Lorenzo in Lucina). AND so He died, alone. The eddying night Of utmost ...
Or Guido, where beneath the crown of thorns Love haloes the divinest of all eyes, And struggles with despair with ...
Guido, I wish that Lapo, you, and Icould board a vessel, by transporter beam,that sailed by will alone, wherever seemeddesirable ...
"THIS bears the seal of immortality, For every soul that reads it feels the search Of answering thought, and ...
For a moment she rested against meLike a swallow half blown to the wall,And they talk of Swinburne's women,And the ...
I have been reading Pomfret's "Choice" this spring, A pretty kind of--sort of--kind of thing, Not much a verse, and ...
How the old Mountains drip with Sunset How the Hemlocks burn -- How the Dun Brake is draped in Cinder ...
I. Dead ! One of them shot by the sea in the east, And one of them shot in the ...
Hic. On the grey sand beside the shallow stream Under your old wind-beaten tower, where still A lamp burns on ...
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