Enigma XLIX. (Elizabeth Hitchener Poems)
Come now, your footsteps turn awhileWhere brighter, milder seasons smile, In soft Italian vales;Where streamlets sparkle in the sun,And ...
Come now, your footsteps turn awhileWhere brighter, milder seasons smile, In soft Italian vales;Where streamlets sparkle in the sun,And ...
WHAT teacher of Israel shuns the broad light,The first feeble dawnings of faith to conceal,And, fearful of men, seeks the ...
None ever knew his name,Honoured, or one of shame, Highborn or lowly;Only upon that treeTwo letters, J and C,Carved by ...
WHAT bishop of Rochester rather would die,Than with Henry 's supremacy basely comply?What martyr of Antioch yields up his breath,By ...
In everything I seek to graspThe fundamental:The daily choice, the daily task,The sentimental.To plumb the essence of the past,The first ...
FIRST mention that land where the Nile, overflowing,Spreads beauty, and health, and fertility round,Then think of that region, where torrid ...
SAY whom did Paul the apostle greet,As not asham'd to own his chain,But tend'ring oft refreshment sweet,To ease his toil, ...
TELL me what prince, detested of mankind,By force of terror Magna Charta signed?Tell me what poet struck his sounding lyre,And ...
BRAVE Nelson 's successor in naval command,The first in the rank of those heroes must stand,Who are now to pass ...
WHO, born at Arpinum, of origin mean,Left the plough for the camp, and the crook for the sword?And, before his ...
THE daughter of Augustus name, Who, though belov'd and fair,Was sent to mourn her spotted fame, Far from ...
Say for what city of the plain"God once heard Abram plead in vain"Yet did in sov'reign mercy spareJust Lot, who ...
WHERE the great Turkish prophet lies,Entomb'd beneath Arabian skies,Where Darnley fell a sacrifice To his fair consort's ire;Where fam'd ...
NAME the heathen god of war,Name Minerva's pride;Then from Grecia steer afar,And rest on Tiber's side.--Think of him whom Brutus ...
(Translated from the French by Edouard Rodti) My wife with the hair of a wood fire With the thoughts of ...
The man with the red hat And the polar bear, is he here too? The window giving on shade, Is ...
I. A BIRD delicious to the taste, On which an army once did feast, Sent by an hand unseen; A ...
THE SINS of Kalamazoo are neither scarlet nor crimson. The sins of Kalamazoo are a convict gray, a dishwater drab. ...
A GOLDWING moth is between the scissors and the ink bottle on the desk. Last night it flew hundreds of ...
When the master was calling the roll At the primary school in Collegelands, You were meant to call back Anseo ...
Take the name of the swain, a forlorn witless elf Who was chang'd to a flow'r for admiring himself. A ...
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