An Invective against Gold (Anne Killigrew Poem)
OF all the Poisons that the fruitful Earth E'er yet brought forth, or Monsters she gave Birth, Nought to Mankind ...
OF all the Poisons that the fruitful Earth E'er yet brought forth, or Monsters she gave Birth, Nought to Mankind ...
OH, England is a pleasant place for them that 's rich and high; But England is a cruel place for ...
Now is the rhymer's honest trade A thing for scornful laughter made. The merchant's sneer, the clerk's disdain, These are ...
Christ has been done to death in the cold reaches of northern Europe a thousand thousand times. Suddenly bread and ...
Where the sober-colored cultivator smiles On his byles; Where the cholera, the cyclone, and the crow Come and go; Where ...
As our mother the Frigate, bepainted and fine, Made play for her bully the Ship of the Line; So we, ...
The Kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls; who, when he had found one, sold ...
Thrice, and above, blest, my soul's half, art thou, In thy both last and better vow; Could'st leave the city, ...
And a merchant said, "Speak to us of Buying and Selling." And he answered and said: To you the earth ...
Soothing his Passions with a warb'ling Sound, A Shepherd-Swain lay stretch'd upon the Ground; Whilst all were mov'd, who their ...
A Thriving Merchant, who no Loss sustained, In little time a mighty Fortune gain'd. No Pyrate seiz'd his still returning ...
We bought an electric monkey, experimenting rather recklessly with funds carefully gathered since grandfather's time for the purchase of a ...
Though loth to grieve The evil time's sole patriot, I cannot leave My buried thought For the priest's cant, Or ...
I In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsy, or my gout, My five grey ...
The Merchant of the Picturesque A Counter has and sales But is within or negative Precisely as the calls -- ...
I gave myself to Him -- And took Himself, for Pay, The solemn contract of a Life Was ratified, this ...
I asked no other thing -- No other -- was denied -- I offered Being -- for it -- The ...
Publication -- is the Auction Of the Mind of Man -- Poverty -- be justifying For so foul a thing ...
We took turns Watching seagulls there Walking on A tilted shore Of ancient waves And modern ships Sparkling in a ...
SO grieves th' adventurous merchant, when he throws All the long toil'd-for treasure his ship stows Into the angry main, ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
I. Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
WHEN wild war's deadly blast was blawn, And gentle peace returning, Wi' mony a sweet babe fatherless, And mony a ...
Come, kings, and listen to my song: When Gwin, the son of Nore, Over the nations of the North His ...
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