A Summer Day (Joanna Baillie Poems)
The dark-blue clouds of night in dusky lines,Drawn wide and streaky o'er the purer sky,Wear faint the morning purple on ...
The dark-blue clouds of night in dusky lines,Drawn wide and streaky o'er the purer sky,Wear faint the morning purple on ...
I.IN the old Rabbinical stories,So old they might well be true,-The sacred tales of the Talmud,That David and Solomon knew,-There ...
Beneath the trees with heedful step and slow At night I go,Fearful upon their whispering to break Lest they awakeOut of those ...
Praise who will the duller liquor Juice of Portugal or Spain; Fill for me with lighter-quicker- Fill for me with Rose Champagne. See the ...
We almost lost our minds through that mad sky:It blinds us with its fire or its snow,And, baring teeth, like ...
Not for passion or for power, Clean of hands, and calm of soul,England at this awful hour Bids her battle-thunders roll,That crown'd ...
With lifted feet, hands still,I am poised, and down the hillDart, with heedful mind;The air goes by in a wind.Swifter ...
Meantime, Arbaces with his captains sat, Anxiously waiting. Wherefore came not back Their heralds, was the wonder: but the truth ...
I. OF all that men with zeal and ardour chace, Pour'd here and there on life's promiscuous ground,Some points are ...
ME thus often the evil monstersthronging threatened. With thrust of my sword,the darling, I dealt them due return!Nowise had they ...
_Stanzas from "Onegin"_Our Northern Winter's fickle Summer,Than Southern Winter scarce more bland--Is undeniably withdrawingOn fleeting footsteps from the land.Soon will ...
BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: —"Have mind, thou honored offspring of Healfdenegold-friend of men, now I go on this quest,sovran ...
He that is washed needs but to wash his feet, ...
I dreamed I was a sculptor, and had wroughtOut of a towering adamantine cragA mighty figure, stately, giant-limbed,And with the ...
Out of the gulf into the glory,Father, my soul cries out to be lifted.Dark is the woof of my dismal ...
Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes,Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise.No stern command, no monitory voicePrescribes her ...
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
I am the Reaper. All things with heedful hook Silent I gather. Pale roses touched with the spring, Tall corn ...
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
The sun descending in the west. The evening star does shine. The birds are silent in their nest, And I ...
NOT thine where marble-still and white Old statues share the tempered light And mock the uneven modern flight, But in ...
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