The Forerunners (George Herbert Poem)
The harbingers are come. See, see their mark; White is their colour, and behold my head. But must they have ...
The harbingers are come. See, see their mark; White is their colour, and behold my head. But must they have ...
Stirs its ashes and embers, its burnt sticks An eye powdered over, half melted and solid again Ponders Ideas that ...
when they look into his mind they find a hill town somewhat surprised they go off to their learned books ...
What conversazzhyonies wuz I really did not know, For that, you must remember, wuz a powerful spell ago; The camp ...
This talk about the journalists that run the East is bosh, We've got a Western editor that's little, but, O ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
FOR He, that made, must new create us, Ere Seneca, or Epictetus, With all their serious Admonitions, Can, for the ...
While Monarchs in stern Battle strove For proud Imperial Sway; Abandon'd to his milder Love, Within a silent peaceful Grove, ...
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
Melissa: I've still rever'd your Order as Divine; And when I see unblemish'd Virtue ...
Ah blame me not, Catcott, if from the right way My notions and actions run far. How can my ideas ...
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
WHEN Princes and Prelates, And hot-headed zealots, A' Europe had set in a low, a low, The poor man lies ...
The Argument. Rintrah roars & shakes his fires in the burdend air; Hungry clouds swag on the deep Once meek, ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
Wee falsely think it due unto our friends, That we should grieve for their too early ends: He that surveys ...
1 O! Solitude, my sweetest choice Places devoted to the night, Remote from tumult, and from noise, How you my ...
Releas'd from the noise of the butcher and baker Who, my old friends be thanked, did seldom forsake her, And ...
The engine is killing the track, the track is silver, It stretches into the distance. It will be eaten nevertheless. ...
Dear Goddess of Corn, whom the ancients we know, (Among other odd whims of those comical bodies,) Adorn'd with somniferous ...
Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused ...
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
XLI I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind, Am urged by ...
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