My Lady’s Lamantation And Complaint Against The Dean (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Sure never did man seeA wretch like poor Nancy,So teazed day and nightBy a Dean and a Knight.To punish my ...
Sure never did man seeA wretch like poor Nancy,So teazed day and nightBy a Dean and a Knight.To punish my ...
A narrow girdle of rough stones and crags,A rude and natural causeway, interposedBetween the water and a winding slopeOf copse ...
As it has for so longcome wind and all weatherthe house glimmers amongthe mists of a littleriver that splinters, itseems, ...
THE HAVEN GAINED.Inscribed to Captain C. Biden, Commander of the ship Victory.And we are parting, glorious Sea! And thou art anchored, ...
I was alone with a chair on a plainWhich lost itself in an empty horizon.The plain was flawlessly paved.Nothing, absolutely ...
We may not realize a kind word spokenMay cheer some lonely heart that's almost broken.We go about our daily tasks ...
One day Intellect said to the heart"A guide to the misguided ones I amBeing on the earth I reach up ...
DEAR BEATRICE , with pleasure I read your kind letter;On the subject, methinks, there could scarce be a better:How vivid ...
In Bath a wanton wife did dwelle,As Chaucer he doth write,Who did in pleasure spend her dayes,And many a fond ...
I Whate'er I be, old England is my dam! So there's my answer to the judges, clear. I'm nothing of ...
You do but jest, sir, and you jest not well,How could the hand be enemy of the arm, Or seed ...
I don't know as I get what D. H. Lawrence is driving at when he ...
What shall be said of this embattled dayAnd arm?d occupation of this nightBy all thy foes beleaguered,-now when sightNor sound ...
It induces a sensationOf irritation(Not to mention frustrationAnd even indignation)When one makes humble solicitationFor employment in some useful occupationIn this ...
My son finds occupationin almost nothing, in everything:my soapy penitential toothpaste,his mother's loosened hairorts, containers, useless things;watches as I peeas ...
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer: Of France the pride and honour I aver; The Holy Ampoule and ...
I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...
I dwell in Possibility -- A fairer House than Prose -- More numerous of Windows -- Superior -- for Doors ...
I I doubt if ten men in all Tilbury Town Had ever shaken hands with Captain Craig, Or called him ...
Success to James Scrymgeour, He's a very good man, And to gainsay it, There's few people can; Because he makes ...
Some days I catch a rhythm, almost a song in my own breath. I'm alone here in Brooklyn Heights, late ...
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