Sir Eldred Of The Bower : A Legendary Tale: In Two Parts (Hannah More Poems)
PART I.There was a young and valiant Knight,Sir Eldred was his name;And never did a worthier wightThe rank of knighthood ...
PART I.There was a young and valiant Knight,Sir Eldred was his name;And never did a worthier wightThe rank of knighthood ...
Season of darkness and contracted day, Inclement Winter, whose approaching foot Treads on the heel of Autumn, pause; nor strew With thy rude ...
Within the great grey flapping tentThe damp crowd stood or stamped about;And some came in, and some went outTo drink ...
THE Banker's dinner is the stateliest feastThe town has heard of for a year, at least;The sparry lustres shed their ...
I very little knew your husband, Madam;He was large and ugly, I did not know more.But we are not annoyed, ...
Matilda Maud Mackenzie frankly hadn't any chin,Her hands were rough, her feet she turned invariably in;Her general form was German,By ...
Of sentences that stir my bile, Of phrases I detest, There's one beyond all others vile; "He did it for the best." Of course he did: I don't suppose, Nor can you think I should, The man's among my deadliest foes, Or is not fairly good. Of course he did it for the best: What should he do it for? But did he do it? that's the test: I ask to know no more. Alas! he did: and here am I, Quite ruined, half disgraced; And you can really ask me why My wrath is not effaced: And there is he, good worthy man, With self-esteem possessed, Still saying, as of course he can, "I did it for the best." No evil deed was ever done, Or honest man withstood, Since first this weary world begun, Except for someone's good. And can it signify to me Whose good he did it for? Mine was it? thus 'twas wont to be, And will be ever more. When inoffensive people plant A dagger in your breast, Your good is what they really want: They do it for the best. (James Kenneth Stephen)
It is the Police Commissioners,All on a winter's day;And they to prove the town waterHave set themselves away.They went to ...
In boundless mercy, the Redeemer left,The bosom of his Father, and assumedA servant's form, though he had reigned a king,In ...
DOWN sunk the sun, nor shed one golden ray, But rising mists shut in the low'ring day: The tides o'erflown ...
The mighty spirit, and its power, which stainsThe bloodless cheek, and vivifies the brains,I sing. Say, ye, its fiery vot'ries ...
PROLOGUE. Woe! to the just occasion that compels My verse to satire, when my soul rebels; Must I, unskill'd her ...
. Had it pleas'd him, from whom all wisdom flows, Him, who each good, each perfect gift bestows, With knowledge ...
My loyal Muse would feign aspire to sing The Praises of our gracious King: But, ah! 'twould ill become his ...
WELCOME thy dawn, protracted day,With pleasures in thy train;Whilst thou and twilight share the sway,Night trembles for her reign.Rouzed from ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
It is a cramped little state with no foreign policy, Save to be thought inoffensive. The grammar of the language ...
1. A conversation begins with a lie. and each speaker of the so-called common language feels the ice-floe split, the ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
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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