The Great Adventure of Max Breuck (Amy Lowell Poem)
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
1903 After Boer War Duly with knees that feign to quake-- Bent head and shaded brow,-- Yet once again, for ...
Love and Death once ceased their strife At the Tavern of Man's Life. Called for wine, and threw -- alas! ...
THE TURN Brave infant of Saguntum, clear Thy coming forth in that great year, When the prodigious Hannibal did crown ...
Reader! what soul that laoves a verse can see The spring return, nor glow like you and me? Hear the ...
[This sweet Ballad, and the one entitled The Maid of the Mill's Repentance, were written on the occasion of a ...
"OH, would we were further! Oh, would we were home, The phantoms of night tow'rd us hastily come, The band ...
WHENCE comes our friend so hastily, ...
[Goethe began to write an opera called Lowenstuhl, founded upon the old tradition which forms the subject of this Ballad, ...
My maiden she proved false to me; To hate all joys I soon began, Then to a flowing stream I ...
(* The name of a game, known in English as "Jack's alight.") WE young people in the shade Sat one ...
A small decal in the rear window the van passing us on the right An image, a stencil stylized of ...
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
What art thou, SPLEEN, which ev'ry thing dost ape? Thou Proteus to abus'd Mankind, Who never yet thy real Cause ...
Weary, at last, of the Pindarick way, Thro' which advent'rously the Muse wou'd stray; To Fable I descend with soft ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
A WIT, transported with Inditing, Unpay'd, unprais'd, yet ever Writing; Who, for all Fights and Fav'rite Friends, Had Poems at ...
Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
"How shall I be a poet? How shall I write in rhyme? You told me once the very wish Partook ...
1 The chestnut steed stood by the gate His noble master's will to wait, The woody park so green and ...
For Robert Lowell This is the time of year when almost every night the frail, illegal fire balloons appear. Climbing ...
With the same heart, I said, I'll answer thee As those, when thou shalt call me by my name- Lo, ...
'Twas in the United States of America some years ago An aged father sat at his fireside with his heart ...
'Twas about the beginning of the past century Billy Bowls was pressed into the British Navy, And conveyed on board ...
It is the season of the sweet wild rose, My Lady's emblem in the heart of me! So golden-crownèd shines ...
What may the woman labour to confess? There is about her mouth a nervous twitch. 'Tis something to be told, ...
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