Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 3. (William Cowper Poems)
SCENE I.-- Adam and Eve.Oh, my beloved companion!Oh thou of my existence,The very heart and soul!Hast thou, with such excess ...
SCENE I.-- Adam and Eve.Oh, my beloved companion!Oh thou of my existence,The very heart and soul!Hast thou, with such excess ...
From Virtue's paths, when hapless men depart,The first avenger is the culprit's heart;There sits a judge, from whose severe decreeNo ...
The house is hoary with the mould of years,And crumbling are its ivy-covered walls;The rain-storms dim it with their misty ...
Now this is the song of a prison-a song of a gaol or jug-A ballad of quod or of chokey, ...
There was many a token of festal display, And reveling crowds who were never so gay, And, as it were AEolus charming ...
'Come forth!' my catbird calls to me, 'And hear me sing a cavatinaThat, in this old familiar tree, Shall hang a garden ...
When fairy-folk sit down to supEach has for plate a buttercup,And for mug a tiny cellOf the delicate blue-bellFilled with ...
Listen, Leo, remember the lifeboatwe pilfered from what you saidwas an abandoned garage sale,1442 Columbus, not the explorer,the street? Last ...
Ah, greet the day, which, like a golden butterfly,Hovereth 'twixt the night and morn;And welcome her fullness-the hours 'mid shadowAnd ...
Along the pastoral ways I go,To get the healing of the trees,The ghostly news the hedges know;To hive me honey ...
(Kamo-no-Chomei, born at Kamo 1154, died at Toyama on Mount Hino, 24th June 1216) Swirl sleeping in the waterfall! On ...
Go, gentle Muse, tis near the gloomy day Of parting-go, and bid farewell for me; Farewell to her who once ...
Beware! The sword of England Is in your hand to keep:Look that it be not tarnished Nor pilfered in your ...
Sometimes I see, in dreams astray from sleep, The blessed vision of a better lot Than such as we, poor ...
Here is one picture of the human world: An unreaped field and Death, the harvester, Taking his rest ...
And then we began eating corn starch, chalk chewed wet into sirup. We pilfered Argo boxes stored away to stiffen ...
Of nearness to her sundered Things The Soul has special times -- When Dimness -- looks the Oddity -- Distinctness ...
Blow, blow your trumpets till they crack, Ye little men of little souls! And bid them huddle at your back ...
When the boys come out from Lac Labiche in the lure of the early Spring, To take the pay of ...
HERE lies Erotion, whom at six years old Fate pilfered. Stranger (when I too am cold, Who shall succeed me ...
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