The Voyage of Telegonus (Henry Kendall Poems)
Ill fares it with the man whose lips are setTo bitter themes and words that spite the gods;For, seeing how ...
Ill fares it with the man whose lips are setTo bitter themes and words that spite the gods;For, seeing how ...
NATHAN BEANS and William Lambert were two wild New England boys,Known from infancy to revel only in forbidden joys.Many a ...
ONE morning I said to my wife,Near the time when the heavens are rifeWith the Equinoctial strife,"Arabella, the weather looks ...
There's a place in the North where the bonnie broom grows,Where winding through green meadows the silver Maine flows,Every lark ...
When I was but a little boy Who hunted in the wood To scare or mangle or destroy A freakish elemental joy That tasted ...
As o'er my latest book I pored,Enjoying it immensely,I suddenly exclaimed 'Good Lord!'And gripped the volume tensely.'Golly!' I cried. I ...
In a wild moraine of forgotten books, On the glacier of years gone by, As I plied my rake for order's sake, There ...
Oh! from the deeds well done, the blood well shedIn a good cause springs up to crown the landWith ever-during ...
Universes are the pagesOf that book whose words are ages;Of that book which destinyOpens in eternity.There each syllable expressesSilence; there ...
HOW dare you sing such cheerful notes? You show a woful lack of taste;How dare you pour from happy throats Such merry ...
The book of nature open lies,With much instruction stored;But till the Lord anoints our eyesWe cannot read a word.Philosophers have ...
While before St. Agnes' shrineKnelt a true knight's lady-love,From the wars of PalestineCame a gentle carrier-dove.Round his neck a Silken ...
"Now, scarce three paces measured from the mound,We stumbled on a stationary voice,And 'Stand, who goes?' 'Two from the palace' ...
THE WIDOW'S TALE.To Farmer Moss, in Langar Vale, came down,His only daughter, from her school in town;A tender, timid maid! ...
From Camoweal to Windywoe, from Windywoe to Thirstyville,We'll drag the line around the map, along the plain, and up the ...
Somewhere or other, 'tis doubtful where,In the archives of Gosh is a volume rare, A precious old classic that nobody ...
CLARICE awoke next morning with the sense That something she had found, and something lost; A little pain she felt, ...
I.Beneath the vans of doom did men pass in.Heroic who came out; for round them hungA wavering phantom's red volcano ...
Short of stature, large of limb, Burly face and russet beard, All the women stared at him, When in Iceland ...
'Twas in the prime of summer-time An evening calm and cool, And four-and-twenty happy boys Came bounding out of school: ...
Now, scarce three paces measured from the mound, We stumbled on a stationary voice, And 'Stand, who goes?' 'Two from ...
Swift as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory & of good, the Sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his ...
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