Prologue To The University Of Oxford, 1674. (John Henry Dryden Poems)
Poets, your subjects have their parts assign'dTo unbend, and to divert their sovereign's mind:When tired with following nature, you think ...
Poets, your subjects have their parts assign'dTo unbend, and to divert their sovereign's mind:When tired with following nature, you think ...
A second crop of hay lies cutand turned. Five gleaming crowssearch and peck between the rows.They make a low, companionable ...
I don't operate often. When I do,persons take note.Nurses look amazed. They pale.The patient is brought back to life, or ...
Sing muse! of Saville and the direful dayWhen beauty fell, to ruthless hands a prey;And life a sacrifice to savage ...
I will bring fire to thee.Euripides.-'Androm'.'Eiros'.Why do you call me Eiros?'Charmion'.So henceforward will you always be called. You must forget,too, ...
ARLA. THE pious sire of ARLA rear'd her youth Strongly to feel the great Creator's power; In her pure bosom ...
'Twas night, and now advanc'd the solemn hour;The keeper of the prison, from his tow'r, Astonish'd, sees a form divinely ...
We were a baker's dozen in the house—six women and six menBesides myself; and all of us had knownThose benefits ...
'Clearing Black SectionPatrol Bass Rock,'Leaps heart; after shockAction comes stumbling;Snatch your helmet;Then run smoothly, to the grumblingOf a dozing Merlin ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
All this was written on the next day's list. On which the busyness unfurled its cursive roots, pale but effective, ...
A comment several weeks ago about wondering about her gifts why she wasn't good at verse or speaking in church ...
Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. HERE I am, ...
Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw-- For he's the master criminal who can defy the Law. He's ...
Forth went the candid man And spoke freely to the wind -- When he looked about him he was in ...
I don't operate often. When I do, persons take note. Nurses look amazed. They pale. The patient is brought back ...
Turning it over, considering, like a madman Henry put forth a book. No harm resulted from this. Neither the menstruating ...
"Miss Rosemary," I dourly said, "Our balance verges on the red, We must cut down our overhead. One of the ...
It was somewhere up the country, in a land of rock and scrub, That they formed an institution called the ...
Twas at the camp of Rorke's Drift, and at tea-time, And busily engaged in culinary operations was a private of ...
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