Sonnet II (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
CIRCUMSTANCE.STALKING before the lords of life, one came,A Titan shape! But often he will crawl,Their most subservient, helpful, humble thrall;Swift ...
CIRCUMSTANCE.STALKING before the lords of life, one came,A Titan shape! But often he will crawl,Their most subservient, helpful, humble thrall;Swift ...
Gilgamesh spoke to Utanapishtim, the Faraway: "I have been looking at you, but your appearance is not strange—you ...
You, dear, have heard me vaunt a memory The which by trodden paths will ...
INot yet had History's Aetna smoked the skies,And low the Gallic Giantess lay enchained,While overhead in ordered set and riseHer ...
Would that with the bold Champlain,And his comrades staunch and true,I had crossed the stormy main,Golden visions to pursue: And ...
COME, let us dance and sing, While our spirits lightly wing; Youth's gay fantastic spring Wreathes the mystic bow'rs! Bend ...
There's ships that bring us cargoes, but not of our desire, Their ladings hail from all the ports 'twixt ...
(Europe Conquers America.) Strong for the strong and in his own conceit; Half-boy, half-madman, playing with the fire; Usurper, hoodlum, ...
Like a worm-fretted visage from the tomb,The moon unswathes her hollow, shrunken head,Launching such light as foulders on the deadFrom ...
Not with libations, but with shouts and laughterWe drenched the altars of Love's sacred grove,Shaking to earth green fruits, impatient ...
43Could live - did live -Could die - did die -Could smile upon the wholeThrough faith in one he met ...
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
The fat lady came out first, tearing out roots and moistening drumskins. The fat lady who turns dying octopuses inside ...
When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think ...
Could live -- did live -- Could die -- did die -- Could smile upon the whole Through faith in ...
He gives me such a bold and curious look, That young American across the way, As if he'd like to ...
Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden ...
VI We lack, yet cannot fix upon the lack: Not this, nor that; yet somewhat, certainly. We see the things ...
'Twas in the year of 1898, ond on the 21st of June, The launching of the Battleship Albion caused a ...
Good people of high and low degree, I pray ye all to list to me, And I'll relate a terrible ...
Not with libations, but with shouts and laughter We drenched the altars of Love's sacred grove, Shaking to earth green ...
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