Crossing the Frontier (Alec Derwent Hope Poem)
Crossing the frontier they were stopped in time, Told, quite politely, they would have to wait: Passports in order, nothing ...
Crossing the frontier they were stopped in time, Told, quite politely, they would have to wait: Passports in order, nothing ...
PALM Sunday at the Vatican They celebrate with palms; With reverence bows each holy man, And chaunts the ancient psalms. ...
Yesterday I drew myself from the noisome throngs and proceeded into the field until I reached a knoll upon which ...
Christ' answer to their question in describing his ministry by what they observed his healing the people laying his hands ...
Matthew 2:1-12 In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the ...
In that region there were shepherds living in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. Then an angel ...
Guided by the start, at its rising, at the moment of his birth a singular star, blazing with the Creator's ...
I'M now disposed to give a pretty tale; Love laughs at what I've sworn and will prevail; Men, gods, and ...
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
HOW weak is man! how changeable his mind! His promises are naught, too oft we find; I vowed (I hope ...
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled): Six months his better half he left with child, A simple, comely, ...
WE'RE told, that once a cobbler, BLASE by name; A wife had got, whose charms so high in fame; But ...
WHEN Cupid with his dart, would hearts assail, The rampart most secure is not the VEIL; A husband better will ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease Both names and titles, freely as they please. It costs them scarcely ...
Bustopher Jones is not skin and bones-- In fact, he's remarkably fat. He doesn't haunt pubs--he has eight or nine ...
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
The Missing All -- prevented Me From missing minor Things. If nothing larger than a World's Departure from a Hinge ...
Lightly stepped a yellow star To its lofty place -- Loosed the Moon her silver hat From her lustral Face ...
"Sic transit gloria mundi," "How doth the busy bee," "Dum vivimus vivamus," I stay mine enemy! Oh "veni, vidi, vici!" ...
Even from afar came shouts of recognition joyful voices rang across the years disdained and faces of our childhood unforgot ...
Saint Peter stood, at Heaven's gate, All souls claims to adjudicate Saying to some souls, "Enter in!" "Go to Hell," ...
You saw sagacious Solomon You know what came of him, To him complexities seemed plain. He cursed the hour 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! ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
One, where the pale sea foamed at the yellow sand, With wave upon slowly shattering wave, Turned to the city ...
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