Pompeii (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
A Poem Which Obtained the Chancellor's Medal at the Cambridge Commencement, July 1819.Oh! land to Memory and to Freedom dear,Land ...
A Poem Which Obtained the Chancellor's Medal at the Cambridge Commencement, July 1819.Oh! land to Memory and to Freedom dear,Land ...
How sweetly on the wood-girt townThe mellow light of sunset shone!Each small, bright lake, whose waters stillMirror the forest and ...
Mountain slopes - amphitheatre, soldier - grey actor,decoration - cliffs and smoke, olive trees and blood poppies.We walk, dark wanderers, ...
IF we could salvage BabylonFrom times's grim heap of dust and bones;If we could charm cool waters backTo sing against ...
Hoverthe imagined center, our tonguesgrew long to please it, lickingthe walls, a chamber built of scent,a moment followed by a ...
Naples Sea, you're amazing at nightWith the Zephyr's scarf unrolled,When your blue, crystal waters of lightSuffuse the moon with gold.In ...
OR THE FLOWER OF THE WILDERNESS. Here, on the arid ridge Of dead Vesuvius, Exterminator terrible, That by no other ...
Pompeii! city of the dead,-entombed Two thousand years in clouds of ashes,-still Remains to tell of long forgotten times, When ...
What wonder this?—we ask the lympid well,O earth! of thee—and from thy solemn wombWhat yieldest thou?—is there life in the ...
175I have never seen "Volcanoes"-But, when Travellers tellHow those old-phlegmatic mountainsUsually so still-Bear within-appalling Ordnance,Fire, and smoke, and gun,Taking Villages ...
Hover the imagined center, our tongues grew long to please it, licking the walls, a chamber built of scent, a ...
I have never seen "Volcanoes" -- But, when Travellers tell How those old -- phlegmatic mountains Usually so still -- ...
The common is unusually calm--they captured the storm last night, it's sleeping in the stockade, relieved of its duty, pacified, ...
STANDING IN EDEN 1 Poetry claimed me young on Skegness beach Before I was born I answered her cry For ...
The common is unusually calm--they captured the storm last night, it's sleeping in the stockade, relieved of its duty, pacified, ...
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound ...
What wonder this?--we ask the lympid well, O earth! of thee--and from thy solemn womb What yieldest thou?--is there life ...
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