Lepanto (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
For Margot Snow that fallest from heaven, bear me aloft on thy wings To the domes of the star-girdled Seven, ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
For Margot Snow that fallest from heaven, bear me aloft on thy wings To the domes of the star-girdled Seven, ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, ...
Doors were left open in heaven again: drafts wheeze, clouds wrap their ripped pages around roofs and trees. Like wet ...
Golden haired and golden hearted I would ever have you be, As you were when last we parted Smiling slow ...
The Cowboy had a sterling heart, The Maiden was from Boston, The Rancher saw his wealth depart- The Steers were ...
Listen, ladies, while I sing The ballad of John Henry King. John Henry was a bachelor, His age was thirty-three ...
She plucked a blossom fair to see; Upon my coat I let her pin it; And thus we stood beneath ...
A Scotchman whose name was Isbister Had a maiden giraffe he called "sister" When she said "Oh, be mine, Be ...
1 The chestnut steed stood by the gate His noble master's will to wait, The woody park so green and ...
I'm buried now; I've done with life; I've done with hate, revenge and strife; I've done with joy, and hope ...
So sweet love seemed that April morn, When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
I have peace to weigh your worth, now all is over, But if to praise or blame you, cannot say. ...
I Hot through Troy's ruin Menelaus broke To Priam's palace, sword in hand, to sate On that adulterous whore a ...
Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. You said "Through ...
"Oh love is fair, and love is rare;" my dear one she said, "But love goes lightly over." I bowed ...
In fear of the rich mouth I kissed the thin,-- Even that was a trap To snare me in. Even ...
(A Virginia Legend.) The Planting of the Hemp. Captain Hawk scourged clean the seas (Black is the gap below the ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
All we were going strong last night this time, the mots were flying & the frozen daiquiris were downing, supine ...
All we were going strong last night this time, the mosts were flying & the frozen daiquiris were downing, supine ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
Christ God who savest man, save most Of men Count Gismond who saved me! Count Gauthier, when he chose his ...
Si credere dignum est.--Virgil, Georgics, III, 390 Oh, worthy of belief I hold it was, Virgil, your legend in those ...
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