St. George’s Day (Khristo Botev Poems)
"Rejoice, o people! Old and youngPraise God today, and praise the king!'Tis Saint George's Day," the sheep gave tongueAs they ...
"Rejoice, o people! Old and youngPraise God today, and praise the king!'Tis Saint George's Day," the sheep gave tongueAs they ...
A happy vicar I might have beenTwo hundred years agoTo preach upon eternal doomAnd watch my walnuts grow;But born, alas, ...
Spain! You are the trustee of the Muslimblood:In my eyes you are sanctified like the Harem.Prints of prostration lie hidden ...
BENEATH the sullen slope of shadowy skies,Midmost this flowerless, wind-bewildered space(Once a fair garden, now a desert-place)Ah! what voluptuous hues ...
A TALE OF THE TAURIDE.Mute sat Giray, with downcast eye, As though some spell in sorrow bound him,His slavish courtiers ...
On Nungar the mists of the morning hung low,The beetle-browed hills brooded silent and black,Not yet warmed to life by ...
What are these women up to? They've gone and strung Drapes over the windows, cutting out light And the slightest ...
Would there be elation and youth, the beloved and a chalice full;Several flowers and a few friends in a mellow ...
There are mottoes on the family crests of EnglandSince the Conqueror blew his conk upon our shoresIt's grand to have ...
Ballad of the Caucasus.Aischa was mine,My tender cousin,My blond lover;And you knew our love,Uncle without bowels,Foul old man.For a few ...
They are buffeting out in the bitter grey weather,—Blow the man down, bullies, blow the man down!—Sea-lark singing to Golden ...
She ain't inclined to'rds lots o' thingsThat eastern gals can do up brown;She don't wear jewelry and rings,Like them swell ...
Exempt! She "does not have to work!" So might one talkDefending long, bedridden ease, Weak yielding ankles, flaccid ...
(With deep bows to Adelaide Anne Proctor's heirs, administrators and assigns.)Before I trust my ...
Sister, rise up after your freedom,why are you quiet?rise up because henceforthyou have to imbibe the blood of tyrannical men.Seek ...
Those halls of the Gireys - still vast and great! -Are galleries where desolation falls;Those varicolored domes, those crumbling hallsWhere ...
Along a narrow Moorish streetA blue-eyed soldier strode.(Ah, well-a-day.)Veiled from her lashes to her feetShe stepped from her abode,(Ah, lack-a-day.)Now ...
"You must choose between me and your cigar." -- BREACH OF PROMISE CASE, CIRCA 1885. Open the old cigar-box, get ...
Feast on wine or fast on water And your honour shall stand sure, God Almighty's son and daughter He the ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
To the Memory of the Household It Describes This Poem is Dedicated by the Author "As the Spirit of Darkness ...
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