Coplas De Manrique (From The Spanish) (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
O let the soul her slumbers break,Let thought be quickened, and awake;Awake to seeHow soon this life is past and ...
O let the soul her slumbers break,Let thought be quickened, and awake;Awake to seeHow soon this life is past and ...
Breathe softly on my harp, O Muse! In gentle strains now clothe its songs,Thy all inspiring force infuse, While singing of the ...
And so it proved! The nation felt, ere long, That peaceful signal, and, with blessings fraught, A new-born joy appeared; in gladsome ...
To this city joy reveal it! Peace as its first signal peal it! (Song of the Bell—concluding lines.)AND so it proved! The ...
Stately court of Fontainebleau,Nine and ninety years agoOn thy spacious esplanade,Ranged in formal dress parade,Stood the Emperor's grenadiersWith their bronzed ...
Youthful friends here a circle form,Elder foes now surrender.Feel among us in safety, warm,Toward you our hearts are tender.Once again ...
"I'm all in!"-Bob FitzsimmonsNOT on your life, Bob; not on your life! The Muse salutes you!And if there still be ...
WAINAMOINEN AND YOUKAHAINEN.Wainamoinen, ancient minstrel,Passed his years in full contentment,On the meadows of Wainola,On the plains of Kalevala,Singing ever wondrous ...
JESSE AND COLIN.A Vicar died and left his Daughter poor -It hurt her not, she was not rich before:Her humble ...
1.REMEMBER, Lord, thou hast not made me good.Or if thou didst, it was so long agoI have forgotten—and never understood,I ...
Through the lattice rushes the south wind, dense With fumes of the flowery frankincense From hawthorn blossoming thickly; And gold ...
(George Eliot.)I. I NEVER touched thy royal hand, dead queen, But from afar have looked upon thy face, Which, calm ...
IN this moment of our joy and exultation From distant lands they come,To join in glad reunion with the ...
I pray thee, Lord, that when it comes to me To say if I will follow truth and Thee, ...
NOW they sing the hero loud; -- But they sing him in his shroud. Torch he kindled for his land; ...
1 A SONG of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms-a ...
1 AN old man bending, I come, among new faces, Years looking backward, resuming, in answer to children, Come tell ...
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