The Eighth Olympic Ode Of Pindar (Henry James Pye Poems)
To Alcimedon, on his Olympic Victory; Timosthenes, on his Nemean Victory; and Melesias, their Preceptor. ARGUMENT. Though this is called ...
To Alcimedon, on his Olympic Victory; Timosthenes, on his Nemean Victory; and Melesias, their Preceptor. ARGUMENT. Though this is called ...
IOut of the reaches of illimitable nightThe blazing planet grew, and forc'd to lifeUnending cycles of progressive strifeAnd strange mutations ...
I fell asleep upon a summer's dayAs on a shady woodland bank I lay,And as I slept there came to ...
"Pinch me; ay, punch me, for fear I m not sitting here reading the paper.Sure as the sun in the ...
I just had turned the classic page, With ancient lore and wisdom fraught,Which many a hoary-headed sage Had stamped with never-dying thought;And ...
OLYMPIA Xl-FOR AGESIDAMUS OF THE WESTWIND LOCRIANS:WINNER IN THE BOYS BOXING MATCH Old Time, Old Shifting Trade-Time there is for the ...
I (MINOR)THE ANCIENT memories buried lie, And the olden fancies pass; The old sweet flower-thoughts wither and fly, And die as ...
Through female subtlety intense,Or the good luck of innocence,Or both, my Wife, with whom I planTo pass calm evenings when ...
Head-bowed I stood before the Gates ofGod,And pleaded starvingly;The Great Eye would not see;And cold with hopeless tears again I ...
When Athens was for Arts and Arms renown'd,Olympic Wreaths uncommon Merit crown'd.These slight Distinctions from the Learn'd and Wise,Convey'd eternal ...
Swept from his fleet upon that fatal night When great Poseidon's sudden-veering wrath Scattered the happy homeward-floating Greeks Like foam-flakes ...
May 28th, 1879Joy to Ierne, joy,This day a deathless crown is won,Her child of song, her glorious son,Her minstrel boyAttains ...
Bold is the Muse to leave her humble Cell, And sing to thee, who know'st to sing so well: Thee! ...
The Survival Of The Gods1 TwilightThe gods of Nature abdicateWhen man intrudes too far:The Dryad leaves her woodland state,And ...
Miller, whom fair Ierne bore To grace Britannia's happier shore, Whose Genius guides, whose counsel guards The labours of Bathonian ...
Aloft upon an old basaltic crag,Which, scalped by keen winds that defend the Pole,Gazes with dead face on the seas ...
… Fall, Hercules, from heaven, in tempests hurl'd, And cleanse this beastly stable of the world; Or ...
I still can remember it was like night and day an instant of madness changed the lives of thousands the ...
good weather is like good women- it doesn't always happen and when it does it doesn't always last. man is ...
Go hang yourself, you old M.D.! You shall not sneer at me. Pick up your hat and stethoscope, Go wash ...
Athens, Greece, August 25, 2004 Gold-Medal Gal of Israel By Sharon Esther Lampert (The Sexist Creative Genius in Human History) ...
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