Winfreda (Eugene Field Poem)
(A BALLAD IN THE ANGLO-SAXON TONGUE) When to the dreary greenwood gloam Winfreda's husband strode that day, The fair Winfreda ...
(A BALLAD IN THE ANGLO-SAXON TONGUE) When to the dreary greenwood gloam Winfreda's husband strode that day, The fair Winfreda ...
It sometimes happens that the woman you meet and fall in love with is of that strange Transylvanian people with ...
What boots it, thy virtue, What profit thy parts, While one thing thou lackest, The art of all arts! The ...
I Ah, who will tell me, in these leaden days, Why the sweet Spring delays, And where she hides, -- ...
All the trees are sleeping, all the winds are still, All the flocks of fleecy clouds have wandered past the ...
She sights a Bird -- she chuckles -- She flattens -- then she crawls -- She runs without the look ...
A Wounded Deer -- leaps highest -- I've heard the Hunter tell -- 'Tis but the Ecstasy of death -- ...
Bring me the sunset in a cup, Reckon the morning's flagons up And say how many Dew, Tell me how ...
The hunt begins at a languid pace belying hysteria building in place, biding its time to menace the peace in ...
cold nights on the farm, a sock-shod stove-warmed flatiron slid under the covers, mornings a damascene- sealed bizarrerie of fernwork ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
How many million galaxies there are Who knows? and each has countless stars in it, And each rolls through eternities ...
So it is eighteen years, Helena, since we met! A season so endears, Nor you nor I forget The fresh ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
How many million galaxies there are Who knows? and each has countless stars in it, And each rolls through eternities ...
So it is eighteen years, Helena, since we met! A season so endears, Nor you nor I forget The fresh ...
To the River Otter Dear native Brook! wild Streamlet of the West! How many various-fated years have past, What happy ...
Dear native brook! wild streamlet of the West! How many various-fated years have passed, What happy and what mournful hours, ...
Nothing grows except the grass. Nothing leaps into sight except some stone and what the stone contains and protects. Here, ...
Awake, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake! The darkness silvers away, the morn doth break, It leaps in the ...
I know 'tis but a loom of land, Yet is it land, and so I will rejoice, I know I ...
High stretched upon the swinging yard, I gather in the sheet; But it is hard And stiff, and one cries ...
Contemplating Hell, as I once heard it, My brother Shelley found it to be a place Much like the city ...
In a cool curving world he lies And ripples with dark ecstasies. The kind luxurious lapse and steal Shapes all ...
(From a sonnet-sequence) Somewhile before the dawn I rose, and stept Softly along the dim way to your room, And ...
Swiftly out from the friendly lilt of the band, The crowd's good laughter, the loved eyes of men, I am ...
Old well, a fish leaps-- dark sound. (Yosa Buson)
This youth too long has heard the break Of waters in a land of change. He goes to see what ...
Eternally the choking steam goes up From the black pools of seething oil. . . . How merry Those little ...
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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