Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind. In Three Cantos. – Canto II. (Matthew Prior Poems)
But shall we take the Muse abroad,To drop her idly on the road,And leave our subject in the middle,As Butler ...
But shall we take the Muse abroad,To drop her idly on the road,And leave our subject in the middle,As Butler ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot;Of one who had the name of Nicaise got;A lad quite ignorant ...
Two brothers once, an ill-matched pair,Together dwelt (no matter where),To whom an Uncle Sam, or some one,Had left a house ...
Pallas, observing Stella's witWas more than for her sex was fit,And that her beauty, soon or late,Might breed confusion in ...
I'VE been watchin' of 'em parson,An' I'm sorry fur to say'At my mind is not contentedWith the loose an' keerless ...
Alone, at last! Not a sound to be heard but the rumbling of some belated and decrepit cabs. For a ...
Dear Dick, how e'er it comes into his head, Believes, as firmly as he does his creed, That you and I, sir, ...
I SOMETIMES think it would be sweetIf we were like the olden lovers-The simple-hearted ones we meetIn musty books with ...
SOPHIE, in shocks of scarlet lace,Receives her usual embraceBeneath a hedge, behind a curtain,Or in the chambers of His Grace.Whether ...
THE FRANK COURTSHIP.Grave Jonas Kindred, Sybil Kindred's sire,Was six feet high, and look'd six inches higher;Erect, morose, determined, solemn, slow,Who ...
SECTS in Religion?--Yes of every raceWe nurse some portion in our favour'd place;Not one warm preacher of one growing sectCan ...
'Eroes? Orright. You 'ave it 'ow yeh like. Throw up yer little 'at an' come the glad;But not too much ...
'Twas the night before the Fourth of July, the people slept serene; The fireworks were stored in the old town ...
At last! I am alone! Nothing can be heard but the rumbling of a few belated and weary cabs. For ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
GUID speed and furder to you, Johnie, Guid health, hale han's, an' weather bonie; Now, when ye're nickin down fu' ...
For Brenda Williams La lune diminue; divin septembre. Divine September the moon wanes. Pierre Jean Jouve Themes for poems and ...
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
Dear Dick, how e'er it comes into his head, Believes, as firmly as he ...
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