The Spirit Wooed (Philip Larkin Poem)
Once I believed in you, And then you came, Unquestionably new, as fame Had said you were. But that was ...
Once I believed in you, And then you came, Unquestionably new, as fame Had said you were. But that was ...
Heard a voice, that cried, "Balder the Beautiful Is dead, is dead!" And through the misty air Passed like the ...
On the shores of Gitche Gumee, Of the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood Nokomis, the old woman, Pointing with her finger westward, ...
By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer ...
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
"Speak! speak I thou fearful guest Who, with thy hollow breast Still in rude armor drest, Comest to daunt me! ...
Oh ye who hold the written clue To all save all unwritten things, And, half a league behind, pursue The ...
1917 (To Lyde of the Music Halls) What boots it on the Gods to call? Since, answered or unheard, We ...
I sent a message to my dear -- A thousand leagues and more to Her -- The dumb sea-levels thrilled ...
1911 When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often ...
Spoken by Miss Ada Rehan at the Lyceum Theatre, July 23, 1890, at a performance on behalf of Lady Jeune's ...
When a man starts out with nothing, When a man starts out with his hands Empty, but clean, When a ...
It was cold this morning, cut into you cold my open suit coat, thin dress white shirt not quite up ...
The wind Undecided Rolls a cigarette of air The mute girl talks: It is art's imperfection. This impenetrable speech. The ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
I see a woman any woman making up and change first she is thinking of something else (because when a ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
(PIANO DI SORRENTO.) Fortu, Frotu, my beloved one, Sit here by my side, On my knees put up both little ...
Kind Christians, all pay attention to me, And Miss Mouat's sufferings I'll relate to ye; While on board the Columbine, ...
'Twas on the 8th of January 1881, That a terrific gale along the English Channel ran, And spread death and ...
'Twas in the year of 1866, and on a very beautiful day, That eighty-two passengers, with spirits light and gay, ...
'Twas in the United States of America some years ago An aged father sat at his fireside with his heart ...
'Twas in the year of 1878, and. the winter had set in, Lord Roberts and the British Army their march ...
As the night was beginning to close in one rough September day In the year of 1838, a steamer passed ...
A sad tale of the sea I will relate, which will your hearts appal Concerning the burning of the steamship ...
'Twas on a Sunday morning, and in the year of 1888, The steamer "Saxmundham," laden with coal and coke for ...
'Twas in the year of 1650, and on the twenty-first of May, The city of Edinburgh was put into a ...
'TWAS in the month of December, and in the year l883, That a monster whale came to Dundee, Resolved for ...
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