To Be Amused (Henry Lawson Poem)
You ask me to be gay and glad While lurid clouds of danger loom, And vain and bad and gambling ...
You ask me to be gay and glad While lurid clouds of danger loom, And vain and bad and gambling ...
Full of wrath was Hiawatha When he came into the village, Found the people in confusion, Heard of all the ...
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, ...
I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed ...
How beautiful is the rain! After the dust and heat, In the broad and fiery street, In the narrow lane, ...
"Speak! speak I thou fearful guest Who, with thy hollow breast Still in rude armor drest, Comest to daunt me! ...
Abdhur Rahman, the Durani Chief, of him is the story told. His mercy fills the Khyber hills -- his grace ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
I I saw a slowly-stepping train -- Lined on the brows, scoop-eyed and bent and hoar -- Following in files ...
With short, sharp violent lights made vivid, To the southward far as the sight can roam, Only the swirl of ...
THE LADY. IN the small and great world too, What most charms a woman's heart? It is doubtless what is ...
THOU art confused, my beloved, at, seeing the thousandfold union Shown in this flowery troop, over the garden dispers'd; any ...
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
A tale that the poet Rückert told To German children, in days of old; Disguised in a random, rollicking rhyme ...
Mother of all the high-strung poets and singers departed, Mother of all the grass that weaves over their graves the ...
We learned the Whole of Love -- The Alphabet -- the Words -- A Chapter -- then the mighty Book ...
A Weight with Needles on the pounds -- To push, and pierce, besides -- That if the Flesh resist the ...
A science -- so the Savants say, "Comparative Anatomy" -- By which a single bone -- Is made a secret ...
Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you ...
The butterfly the ancient Grecians made The soul's fair emblem, and its only name-- But of the soul, escaped the ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife ...
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife ...
I Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold And very Regent of the untroubled sky, Whom in a dream St. Hilda ...
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 ...
Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build, Bidding my organ obey, calling its keys to their work, ...
I. Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll ...
I. So, I shall see her in three days And just one night, but nights are short, Then two long ...
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was ...
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