Le Testament: Ballade: ‘Item: Donne A Ma Povre Mere’ (Francoise Villon Poems)
ItemThis I give to my poor motherAs a prayer now, to our Mistress- She who bore bitter pain for me,God ...
ItemThis I give to my poor motherAs a prayer now, to our Mistress- She who bore bitter pain for me,God ...
I stood in the heart of the city street,I felt the throb of her pulses beat,The thunder of life on ...
LEADER no more, be judged of us! Hailed Chief, and loved, of yore -- Youth, and the faith of youth, ...
(A Modernity) Twelve good friends Passed under her hat, And devil a one of them Knew where he was at. Had they but known, Then had they known all things, — The littleness of great things, The unmeasured immensity of small things. They had known the Where and the Why, The When and the Wherefore, And how the Eternal Conceived the Eternal, and therefore Beginning began the Beginning; They had apprehended The ultimate virtue of sinning; They had caught the whisper That Vega vibrates to Arcturus, Piercing the walls Of heavy flesh that immure us. But if they had known, Then had there been no mystery; And Life had been poorer, And laughter unsurer, And the shadow of death securer, By lack of this brief history.(Charles G. D. Roberts)
Stay with me, Poesy! playmate of childhood!Friend of my manhood! delight of my youth!Roamer with me over valley and wildwood, ...
In cheerful faith that fears no ill The good man doth the world begin;And dreams that all without shall ...
pity this busy monster, manunkind,not. Progress is a comfortable disease:your victim (death and life safely beyond)plays with the bigness of ...
They laughed at me as "Prof. Moon,"As a boy in Spoon River, born with the thirstOf knowing about the stars.They ...
Fire in the heavens, and fire along the hills,and fire made solid in the flinty stone,thick-mass'd or scatter'd pebble, fire ...
Fire in the heavens, and fire along the hills, and fire made solid in the flinty stone, thick-massed or scattered ...
Thy mission is accomplished- painter- sage,Look to thy crown of glory- for thy browIs circled with its radiant halo now.No ...
A young Apollo, golden-haired,Stands dreaming on the verge of strife,Magnificently unpreparedFor the long littleness of life.(Frances Darwin Cornford)
1903 Before a midnight breaks in storm, Or herded sea in wrath, Ye know what wavering gusts inform The greater ...
I 'Tis done -- but yesterday a King! And arm'd with Kings to strive -- And now thou art a ...
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs, The not-incurious in God's handiwork (This man's-flesh he hath admirably made, Blown like a ...
In cheerful faith that fears no ill The good man doth the world begin; And dreams that all without shall ...
The man Flammonde, from God knows where, With firm address and foreign air With news of nations in his talk ...
Nudes -- stark and glistening, Yelling in lurid glee. Grinning faces And raging limbs Whirl over the floor one fire. ...
Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia, neu se Impediat verbis lassas onerantibus aures: Et sermone opus est modo tristi, saepe ...
Water, moonlight, danger, dream. Bronze urn, angled on a tree root: one Slash of light, then gone. A red moon ...
They laughed at me as "Prof. Moon," As a boy in Spoon River, born with the thirst Of knowing about ...
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