The Fan : A Poem. Book I. (John Gay Poems)
I sing that graceful toy, whose waving play,With gentle gales relieves the sultry day.Not the wide fan by Persian dames ...
I sing that graceful toy, whose waving play,With gentle gales relieves the sultry day.Not the wide fan by Persian dames ...
I DREW it from its china tomb;- It came out feebly scented With some thin ghost of past perfume That ...
That sculptor we knew, the passionate-eyed son of a quarryman,Who astonished Rome and Paris in his meteor youth, and thenwas ...
'And will you cut a stone for him,To set above his head?And will you cut a stone for him--A stone ...
And an old priest said, "Speak to us of Religion."And he said:Have I spoken this day of aught else?Is not ...
TO VITTORIA COLONNA.THE MODEL AND THE STATUE.Da che concetto.When divine Art conceives a form and face, She bids the craftsman for ...
THE raw materials of love are yours-Fond hearts, and lusty blood, and minds in tune;And so, dear innocents! you think ...
THE BRIDE'S FAREWELL.When the marriage was completed,When the many guests had feasted,At the wedding of the Northland,At the Dismal-land carousal,Spake ...
Rabbi Ben Horad was a learned man, Of gentle ways, who taught a pious flock,So small, at morn and eve ...
Astrea, eldest born of Jove, Whom all the gods revere and love, Was sent, while man deserv'd their care, On ...
I Brag, sweet tenor bull, descant on Rawthey's madrigal, each pebble its part for the fells' late spring. Dance tiptoe, ...
My wife contrived a fleecy thingHer husband to infold,For 'tis the pride of woman stillTo cover from the cold:My daughter ...
Let me sit down for a minute, sirThere's a milestone in my bootAnd list to the tale how my hearthstone ...
In a garden where the may made the straggling fences gayAnd the roses cream and scarlet shed their petals on ...
The boom and blare of the big brass band is cheering to my heart And I like the smell of ...
And an old priest said, "Speak to us of Religion." And he said: Have I spoken this day of aught ...
Watching them play Seeing their notes on the paper Sensing the fun in practice in hearing the sheet come alive ...
Pythagoras planned it. Why did the people stare? His numbers, though they moved or seemed to move In marble or ...
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
This brand of soap has the same smell as once in the big House he visited when he was eight: ...
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