Carmen Seculare. For the Year 1700. To The King (Matthew Prior Poems)
Thy elder Look, Great Janus, castInto the long Records of Ages past:Review the Years in fairest Action drestWith noted White, ...
Thy elder Look, Great Janus, castInto the long Records of Ages past:Review the Years in fairest Action drestWith noted White, ...
Bright Arts, abus'd, like Gems, receive their Flaws;Physick has Quacks, and Quirks obscure the Laws.Fables to shade Historic Truths combine,And ...
While You, dread Sir, whom partial Heav'n denies,The fruitful Vineyard and Cis--Alpine Skies,O'er frozen Heights and chilling Desarts stray,Far from ...
the spiritual, Platonic old England .S. T. COLERIDGE, Anima Poetae'Your situation', said Coningsby, looking up the green and silent valley, ...
This day (the year I dare not tell) Apollo play'd the midwife's part;Into the world Corinna fell, And he endued her with ...
While with labour assiduous due pleasure I mix,And in one day atone for the business of six,In a little Dutch ...
WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF HIS MEMOIRS.Dear friends, who read the world aright,And in its common forms discernA beauty ...
Author of "The Oriental Memoirs," WHO ASKED FOR SOME LINES OF MY HAND-WRITINGON LEAVING FRANCE, AFTER HISCAPTIVITY AT VERDUN. WHEN sever'd ...
THE GENTLEMAN FARMER.Gwyn was a farmer, whom the farmers all,Who dwelt around, "the Gentleman" would call;Whether in pure humility or ...
In those old days which poets say were golden — (Perhaps they laid the gilding on ...
Walking into the shadows, walking aloneWhere the sun falls through the ruined boughs of locustUp to the president's office. . ...
Mr Kessler, you know, was in the army, And he drew six dollars a month as a pension, And stood ...
I like to read confessionsAs lengthy as Rousseau's,With all their slow processionsOf innumerable woes.I revel in Cellini,Augustine, AmielDumas's Memoirs so ...
to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U, whose head was cut off in Shanghai A CLAIM Renowned Leonardo's world-famous "La ...
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
THE TELESCOPE picks off star dust on the clean steel sky and sends it to me. The telephone picks off ...
They tell me that euphoria is the feeling of feeling wonderful, well, today I feel euphorian, Today I have the ...
'Twas in the year of 1888 and on the 17th of January That the late Rev. Dr. Wilson's soul fled ...
Mr Kessler, you know, was in the army, And he drew six dollars a month as a pension, And stood ...
Rain filled the streets once a year, rising almost to door and window sills, battering walls and roofs until it ...
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