An August Midnight (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I A shaded lamp and a waving blind, And the beat of a clock from a distant floor: On this ...
I A shaded lamp and a waving blind, And the beat of a clock from a distant floor: On this ...
the man and the horse and the crocodile lay down on the couch together the man said this isn't going ...
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest ...
This valley wood is pledged To the set shape of things, And reasonably hedged: Here are no harpies fledged, No ...
Not to sleep all the night long, for pure joy, Counting no sheep and careless of chimes Welcoming the dawn ...
Letting this stand the oppression of the nations letting the people starve in subjugation Standing idly by as the people ...
In the time of protest the turning of this page the age of despots ending a new day begun They ...
Many hands raised in the hall voices raised to the ceiling, the heavens each one a voice of discernment of ...
A Fond Athenian Mother brought A Sculptor to indulge her Thought, And carve her Only Son; Who to such strange ...
'Mid my gold-brown curls There twined a silver hair: I plucked it idly out And scarcely knew 'twas there. Coiled ...
As other men, so I myself do muse Why in this sort I wrest invention so, And why these giddy ...
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
Although thy hand and faith, and good works too, Have sealed thy love which nothing should undo, Yea though thou ...
This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint My pilgrimage's last mile; and my race Idly, yet quickly run, ...
A single Clover Plank Was all that saved a Bee A Bee I personally knew From sinking in the sky ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
Up this green woodland-ride let's softly rove, And list the nightingale- she dwells just here. Hush ! let the wood-gate ...
The river stretched. It flows, idly grieves, And washes both banks. In steppe, above light clay of cliffs Rinks mourn ...
In the dungeon-crypts, idly did I stray, Reckless of the lives wasting there away; "Draw the ponderous bars! open, Warder ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
I. It is a lie---their Priests, their Pope, Their Saints, their ... all they fear or hope Are lies, ...
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
DELUDED swain, the pleasure The fickle Fair can give thee, Is but a fairy treasure, Thy hopes will soon deceive ...
Chequer'd with woven shadows as I lay Among the grass, blinking the watery gleam, I saw an Echo-Spirit in his ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill; Go, shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes! No longer leave thy ...
HAIL, thairm-inspirin', rattlin' Willie! Tho' fortune's road be rough an' hilly To every fiddling, rhyming billie, We never heed, But ...
TO you, sir, this summons I've sent, Pray, whip till the pownie is freathing; But if you demand what I ...
"HUSBAND, husband, cease your strife, Nor longer idly rave, Sir; Tho' I am your wedded wife Yet I am not ...
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