Ballad XIV (Christine de Pizan Poems)
Ah, Death, Death, Death, to thee I make my prayer ! Come, rend me from this dolorous world apart ! ...
Ah, Death, Death, Death, to thee I make my prayer ! Come, rend me from this dolorous world apart ! ...
I Night is above me, And Night is above the night. The sea is beside me soughing, or is still. ...
Behind yellow windows shadows drink hot tea.Yearning people sway on a hardened pondWorkers find a soft woman's corpse.Glowing blue snows ...
Very God of Love, who art of lovers Lord, And Venus, thou, Love's Lady and Goddess, Since in love only ...
Spoken by Miss Ada Rehan at the Lyceum Theatre, July 23, 1890, at a performance on behalf of Lady Jeune's ...
[From the Morlack.) WHAT is yonder white thing in the forest? Is it snow, or can it swans perchance be? ...
SLUMBER and Sleep, two brethren ordain'd by the gods to their service, Were by Prometheus implored, comfort to give to ...
"Remember me" implored the Thief! Oh Hospitality! My Guest "Today in Paradise" I give thee guaranty. That Courtesy will fair ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
"Enough of thought, philosopher! Too long hast thou been dreaming Unlightened, in this chamber drear, While summer's sun is beaming! ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
Lo giorno se n'andava, e l'aere bruno toglieva li animai che sono in terra da le fatiche loro; e io ...
When Tom and I were married, we took a little flat; I had a taste for singing and playing and ...
Why run the crowd? What means the throng That rushes fast the streets along? Can Rhodes a prey to flames, ...
Yet one Song more! one high and solemn strain Ere PAEAN! on thy temple's ruined wall I hang the silent ...
Three widows of the Middle West We're grimly chewing gum; The Lido chef a quail had dressed With garlic and ...
High, on the Solitude of Alpine Hills, O'er-topping the grand imag'ry of Nature, Where one eternal winter seem'd to reign; ...
'Twas on the 8th of January 1881, That a terrific gale along the English Channel ran, And spread death and ...
I Ran to the forest for shelter, Breathless, half sobbing; I put my arms round a tree, Pillowed my head ...
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
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