British Georgics. August (James Grahame Poems)
Intense the viewless flood of heat descendsOn hill, and dale, and wood, and tangled brake,Where, to the chirping grasshopper, the ...
Intense the viewless flood of heat descendsOn hill, and dale, and wood, and tangled brake,Where, to the chirping grasshopper, the ...
Mater ait, tacta est dea Nomine Matris.Ovid--- Utinam modo dicere PossemCarmina digna dea, certe est dea carmine digna.VirgilLet hireling Poets ...
I'm a grandchild of the Gods Who on th' Amstel have abodes; Whence their orders forth are sent Swift for ...
Led by the jocund train of vernal hoursAnd vernal airs, uprose the gentle May;Blushing she rose, and blushing rose the ...
O Pathos of Love! You are a glossy pearlBeware, you should not appear among strangersThe theatre of your display is ...
There is an isle in an unfurrowed seaThat I wot of, whereon the whole year roundThe apple-blossoms and the rosebuds ...
A spring wind on the Bowery,Blowing the fluff of night sheltersOff bedraggled garments,And agitating the gutters, that eject little spirals ...
A mountain was saying this to a squirrel"Commit suicide if you have self-respectYou are insignificant, still so arrogant, how strange!You ...
I He whom we anatomized 'whose words we gathered as pleasant flowers and thought on his wit and how neatly ...
I sat at a high window till sleep despaired of meAnd all the anger in this small roomShook me for ...
Whether with me, or without me, my dearest one, you will still grow, With my help or without my help, ...
Delicate mother Kangaroo Sitting up there rabbit-wise, but huge, plump-weighted, And lifting her beautiful slender face, oh! so much more ...
The sea still plunges where as naked boysWe dared the currents and the racing tidesThat stamped red weals of fury ...
He'll be pleased if I phone to ask him how he is. It will make me look considerate and he ...
Under silver wing San Francisco's towers sprouting thru thin gas clouds, Tamalpais black-breasted above Pacific azure Berkeley hills pine-covered below-- ...
Slimmer pickings at the farm stand smaller, more immature lighter kernels on the cob late corn, from the gleanings before ...
In ash-fine silt that spread like sand after the flood and before the wild weeds claimed the old stream bed; ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was ...
"Remember, you loved me, when we were young, one day" The words of the song in Tauber's mellifluous tenor Haunt ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
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