The Respite (Maria Gowen Brooks Poems)
THE BANQUET-CUPS, of many a hue and shape, Bossed o'er with gems, were beautiful to view;But, for the madness of the ...
THE BANQUET-CUPS, of many a hue and shape, Bossed o'er with gems, were beautiful to view;But, for the madness of the ...
MANY a day and night my bark stood ready laden;Waiting fav'ring winds, I sat with true friends round me,Pledging me ...
When you've failed with ordered people, when you've sunk neck-deep againIn the sluggish wash and jetsam of the slackened tides ...
Old events have modern meanings; only that survivesOf past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.Mahmood once, the ...
Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled ...
"PITY her," say'st thou, "pity her!" nay, not I!Her heart is shallow as yon garrulous rillThat froths o'er pebbles: grief, ...
This mortal body of a thousand daysNow fills, O Burns, a space in thine own room,Where thou didst dream alone ...
Behold, with empty socketsStaring o'er the desert's way;Mutely countenancing the tragediesOf ages; crawled o'er as by gnats,By tribes that in ...
THE proper way to eat a fig, in society,Is to split it in four, holding it by the stump,And open ...
I. A palace, and a king within;- Hail, potent monarch! Hail, King Gin! Open stands his palace door; Ready access ...
I When the Head of Bran Was firm on British shoulders, God made a man! Cried all beholders. Steel could ...
Once for the sceptre of Germany, fought with Bavarian Louis Frederick, of Hapsburg descent, both being called ...
Wistfully shimmering, shamelessly wise and weak,He lives in pawn, pledging a battered name;He loves his failures as one might love ...
Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid ...
MANY a day and night my bark stood ready laden; Waiting fav'ring winds, I sat with true friends round me, ...
Out of her anguish out of her pain a mother's voice rising determined, resolute making a promise to him Joy ...
Appearing to these believers appearing to them on the road telling his whole story the law and prophets fulfilled Just ...
Weekly payments, cash payments for the work performed, day by day helping them and their family, do what is right, ...
YE banks, and braes, and streams around The castle o' Montgomery! Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your ...
Ye banks and braes and streams around The castle o' Montgomery, Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, Your ...
Once for the sceptre of Germany, fought with Bavarian Louis Frederick, of Hapsburg descent, both being called to the throne. ...
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