On The Discoveries Of Captain Lewis (January 14, 1807) (Joel Barlow Poems)
Let the Nile cloak his head in the clouds, and defy The researches of science and time;Let the Niger escape the ...
Let the Nile cloak his head in the clouds, and defy The researches of science and time;Let the Niger escape the ...
Power above powers, O heavenly eloquence,That with the strong rein of commanding wordsDost manage, guide, and master th' eminenceOf men's ...
She stood against the Orient sun,Her face inscrutable for light;A myriad larks in unisonSang o'er her, soaring out of sight.A ...
WAINIOINEN'S RESCUE.Wainamoinen, old and truthful,Swam through all the deep-sea waters,Floating like a branch of aspen,Like a withered twig of willow;Swam ...
Alpha and Omega, sadness and mirth, The springing music, and its wasting breath--The fairest things in life are Death and ...
As on a holiday, when a farmer Goes out to look at ...
Hearken my chant, 'tisAs a Bacchante's,A grape-spurt, a vine-splash, a tossed tress, flown vaunt 'tis!Suffer my singing,Gipsy of Seasons, ere ...
O perfect Light, which shaid away The darkness from the light,And set a ruler o'er the day, Another o'er the ...
Sunset again! Behind the massy greenOf the continuous oaks the sun hath fallen, And his last rays have struggled through, ...
Peace tries to land in Vietnam,but only after a cautious examination.Day after day, month following month,flutters, runs away, hovers again.If ...
716The Day undressed—Herself—Her Garter—was of Gold—Her Petticoat—of Purple plain—Her Dimities—as oldExactly—as the World—And yet the newest Star—Enrolled upon the HemisphereBe ...
I Last year I called this world of gain-givings The darkest thinkable, and questioned sadly If my own land could ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
The One who could repeat the Summer day -- Were greater than itself -- though He Minutest of Mankind should ...
The Lilac is an ancient shrub But ancienter than that The Firmamental Lilac Upon the Hill tonight -- The Sun ...
The Day undressed -- Herself -- Her Garter -- was of Gold -- Her Petticoat -- of Purple plain -- ...
Fame is the tine that Scholars leave Upon their Setting Names -- The Iris not of Occident That disappears as ...
New Castle, July 4, 1878 or a hundred years the pulse of time Has throbbed for Liberty; For a hundred ...
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
Here on a hill of the occident stand we shoulder to shoulder, Comrades tried and true through a mighty swath ...
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