The Dong with a Luminous Nose (Edward Lear Poem)
When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights; -- When the ...
When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights; -- When the ...
Far and wide among the nations Spread the name and fame of Kwasind; No man dared to strive with Kwasind, ...
"Speak! speak I thou fearful guest Who, with thy hollow breast Still in rude armor drest, Comest to daunt me! ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
When by my solitary hearth I sit, And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom; When no fair dreams before ...
I. Reference to a Passage in Plutarch's Life of Sulla The people buying and selling, consuming pleasures, talking in the ...
The old woman across the way is whipping the boy again and shouting to the neighborhood her goodness and his ...
in the wares before you spread, Types of all things may be read. 'NEATH the shadow Of these bushes, On ...
The gold-hoarder walked in his palace park and with him walked his troubles. And over his head hovered worries as ...
O fountain of Bandusia, Whence crystal waters flow, With garlands gay and wine I'll pay The sacrifice I owe; A ...
Though care and strife Elsewhere be rife, Upon my word I do not heed 'em; In bed I lie With ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
He gave the solid rail a hateful kick. From far away there came an answering tick And then another tick. ...
"Do you give thanks for this? -- or that?" No, God be thanked I am not grateful In that cold, ...
A face devoid of love or grace, A hateful, hard, successful face, A face with which a stone Would feel ...
Ere on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use to pray With moving lips or ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees ...
I My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
Per me si va ne la citt? dolente, per me si va ne l'etterno dolore, per me si va tra ...
Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected - I shared all this with my own people There, where ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
I 'But where do you go?' said the lady, while both sat under the yew, And her eyes were alive ...
sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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