The Ode of Tarafah (Tarafah ibn al Abd Poems)
A young gazelle there is in the tribe, dark-lipped, fruit-shaking,flaunting a double necklace of pearls and topazes,holding aloof, with the ...
A young gazelle there is in the tribe, dark-lipped, fruit-shaking,flaunting a double necklace of pearls and topazes,holding aloof, with the ...
'. . . our language, forged in the dark bycenturies of violentpressure, underground,out of the stuff of dead life.'Thirsty and ...
IOne fairest of the ripe unwedded leftHer shadow on the Sage's path; he found,By common signs, that she had done ...
Days, when the ball of our visionHad eagles that flew unabashed to sun;When the grasp on the bow was decision,And ...
BIRTH OF THE NINE DISEASES.Louhi, hostess of the Northland,Heard the word in Sariola,Heard the Dews with ears of envy,That Wainola ...
So you knew Dalley that used to driveThat spanking old engine—fifty-five;Knew him? why, Dalley was my mate,He died beside me ...
On to Bill's length, said my mate to me. Bill was his brother, had charge of the plates From Horsely's ...
622To know just how He suffered-would be dear-To know if any Human eyes were nearTo whom He could entrust His ...
That Garden of sedate PhilosophyOnce flourished, fenced from passion and mishap,A shining spot upon a shaggy map;Where mind and body, ...
As I drive to the junction of lane and highway, And the drizzle bedrenches the waggonette, I look behind at ...
Finding its own way, a purchase, in the seam the tiny hole, the junction between the dirt, the air, the ...
Lancaster bore him--such a little town, Such a great man. It doesn't see him often Of late years, though he ...
To know just how He suffered -- would be dear -- To know if any Human eyes were near To ...
All roads that lead to God are good. What matters it, your faith, or mine? Both centre at the goal ...
I, too, have trailed my father's spirit From the mud-walled cabin behind the mountain Where he was born and bred, ...
Ancient town of Leith, most wonderful to be seen, With your many handsome buildings, and lovely links so green, And ...
'Twas in the year of 1857 and on the 14th of September That the Sepoy rebels at Delhi were forced ...
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