Festus – XIII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
In one of earth'sHead cities, awaiting this, the effect unknown,Of evil, not, truly, all--wise, we towerlike rise;With eminent but indifferent ...
In one of earth'sHead cities, awaiting this, the effect unknown,Of evil, not, truly, all--wise, we towerlike rise;With eminent but indifferent ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new;The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue;His large domains howe'er were not the cause,Nor ...
DAME FORTUNE often loves a laugh to raise,And, playing off her tricks and roguish ways,Instead of giving us what we ...
(To J.S. and A.W.S.)In entering the town, where the bright riverShrinks in its white stone bed, old thoughts returnOf how ...
When you destroy a blade of grassYou poison England at her roots:Remember no man's foot can passWhere evermore no green ...
Once more I write a line to you, While darker shadows fall;Dear friends of mine who have been true, And steadfast through ...
He who first stretched his nerves of subtile wireOver the land and through the sea-depths still,Thought only of the flame-winged ...
Part the FirstKing Arthur lives in merry Carleile,And seemely is to see;And there with him Queene Guenever,That bride soe bright ...
1st November, 1840Happy the babe that closes its young eyes'Ere they have looked on sorrow, and defiesThe hand of Time ...
POOR child of affliction! I heard thee repine,And my heart beat with sorrow responsive to thine;And one who has long ...
ON thy beds of clover playing, Pretty Insect, why so gay?Why so blithely dress'd this morning? 'Tis to ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the ...
You call me an angel of love and of light, A being of goodness and heavenly fire, Sent out from ...
I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame; I hear ...
That one small boy with a face like pallid cheese And burnt-out little eyes could make a blaze As brazen, ...
You have read War and Peace. Now here is Sister Carrie, not up to Tolstoy; still it will second the ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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