From The First Act Of The Aminta Of Tasso (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
Pretty Nymph! within this Shade, Whilst the Flocks to rest are laid, Whilst the World dissolves in Heat, Take ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
G'way an' quit dat noise, Miss Lucy-- Put dat music book away; What's de use to keep on tryin'? Ef ...
Tell as a Marksman -- were forgotten Tell -- this Day endures Ruddy as that coeval Apple The Tradition bears ...
Went up a year this evening! I recollect it well! Amid no bells nor bravoes The bystanders will tell! Cheerful ...
Flowers -- Well -- if anybody Can the ecstasy define -- Half a transport -- half a trouble -- With ...
As a child I played in the same frosty fields barefoot as my no lesser loved classmates, whom we challenged ...
We were water babes, born in the arms of a sparkling brook that patiently took us into its heart. At ...
Should you be allowed sole privilege of unconscionable martyrdom? This affliction is self-pity brought by suffering as penitent to unrequited ...
Our lives were founded on this rock, this Jessie of Gibraltar Whose unfailing love endured beyond her ample nursing, And ...
I love you in the morning and at the setting of the sun And in the hours of darkness before ...
We are honored and humble and earnest to share in events which would happen although we weren't there, a trifling ...
Growing up, I propose, is like wearing a dead man's clothes. Death has a way of levelling the ground. I ...
Awake, awake, my Lyre! And tell thy silent master's humble tale In sounds that may prevail; Sounds that gentle thoughts ...
HAIL, sister springs, Parents of silver-footed rills! Ever bubbling things, Thawing crystal, snowy hills! Still spending, never spent; I mean ...
LO here a little volume, but great Book A nest of new-born sweets; Whose native fires disdaining To ly thus ...
The Lord receives his highest praise From humble minds and hearts sincere; While all the loud professor says Offends the ...
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
'Tis my happiness below Not to live without the cross, But the Saviour's power to know, Sanctifying every loss; Trials ...
Breathe from the gentle south, O Lord, And cheer me from the north; Blow on the treasures of thy word, ...
The double 12 sorwe of Troilus to tellen, That was the king Priamus sone of Troye, In lovinge, how his ...
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind. Because the lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted ...
The earth is full of rhythms so precise the octave of the crystal can produce a trillion oscillations, yet not ...
Jan 7th A dreadful darkness closes in On my bewildered mind; O let me suffer and not sin, Be tortured ...
YES, thou art gone ! and never more Thy sunny smile shall gladden me ; But I may pass the ...
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
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