The Fourth Shepherd (Joyce Kilmer Poem)
(For Thomas Walsh) I On nights like this the huddled sheep Are like white clouds upon the grass, And merry ...
(For Thomas Walsh) I On nights like this the huddled sheep Are like white clouds upon the grass, And merry ...
(From The Jungle Book) Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the ...
1919 As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, Make my proper prostrations to the Gods of ...
1914 We thought we ranked above the chance of ill. Others might fall, not we, for we were wise-- Merchants ...
Why do ye weep, sweet babes? can tears Speak grief in you, Who were but born just as the modest ...
SONG OF THE IMPRISONED COUNT. COUNT. I KNOW a flower of beauty rare, Ah, how I hold it dear! To ...
ON a rocky peak once sat I early, Gazing on the mist with eyes unmoving; Stretch'd out like a pall ...
Now the golden Morn aloft Waves her dew-bespangled wing, With vermeil cheek and whisper soft She wooes the tardy Spring: ...
Though skilled in Latin and in Greek, And earning fifty cents a week, Such knowledge, and the income, too, Should ...
THE Queen of Birds, t'encrease the Regal Stock, Had hatch'd her young Ones in a stately Oak, Whose Middle-part was ...
The deepest dream is of mad governors, Down, down we feel it, till the very crust Of the world cracks, ...
I think I was enchanted When first a sombre Girl -- I read that Foreign Lady -- The Dark -- ...
Melissa: I've still rever'd your Order as Divine; And when I see unblemish'd Virtue ...
When Hagar found the bottle spent And wept o'er Ishmael, A message from the Lord was sent To guide her ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
The meanest trick I ever knew Was one I know you never do. I saw a Goop once try to ...
'Tis done---and shivering in the gale The bark unfurls her snowy sail; And whistling o'er the bending mast, Loud sings ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
NOW Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o' daisies white Out o'er the ...
Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed And worthy of acceptation. Fire is bright, Let temple burn, or flax; an ...
THEL'S MOTTO 1 Does the Eagle know what is in the pit? 2 Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
They are always with us, the thin people Meager of dimension as the gray people On a movie-screen. They Are ...
Ambition I am the maid of the lustrous eyes Of great fruition, Whom the sons of men that are over-wise ...
But therewith the sun rose upward and lightened all the earth, And the light flashed up to the heavens from ...
That Providence which had so long the care Of Cromwell's head, and numbred ev'ry hair, Now in its self (the ...
A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector That Providence which had so long the care ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
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