Poor Honest Men (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Your jar of Virginny Will cost you a guinea, Which you reckon too much by five shillings or ten; But ...
Your jar of Virginny Will cost you a guinea, Which you reckon too much by five shillings or ten; But ...
1911 When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often ...
I. Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye! They could not in the self-same mansion ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book ...
"ALIVE?"--And I leapt in my wonder, Was faint of my joyance, And grasses and grove shone in garments Of glory ...
Up yonder in Buena Park There is a famous spot, In legend and in history Yclept the Waller Lot. There ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
He would declare and could himself believe That the birds there in all the garden round From having heard the ...
High stretched upon the swinging yard, I gather in the sheet; But it is hard And stiff, and one cries ...
The Man that hath great griefs I pity not; 'Tis something to be great In any wise, and hint the ...
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
Si credere dignum est.--Virgil, Georgics, III, 390 Oh, worthy of belief I hold it was, Virgil, your legend in those ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
(As Distinguished by an Italian Person of Quality) I Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
(ALCAICS) Confused, he found her lavishing feminine Gold upon clay, and found her inscrutable; And yet she smiled. Why, then, ...
How wise I am to have instructed the butler to instruct the first footman to instruct the second footman to ...
Flaubert wanted to write a novel About nothing. It was to have no subject And be sustained upon the style ...
Hot August noon: already on that day Since sunrise through the Wiltshire downs, most sad Of mouth and eye, he ...
But, learning now that they would have her speak, She threw her wet hair backward from her brow, Her hand ...
Though Already Perhaps However. On one level, Among other things, With And with. In a similar vein To be sure: ...
"So pulse, and pulse, thou rhythmic-hearted Noon That liest, large-limbed, curved along the hills, In languid palpitation, half a-swoon With ...
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