I swear to you, Love, by your arrows (Gaspara Stampa Poems)
I swear to you, Love, by your arrows,And by your powerful holy flame,I care not if by one I'm maimed,My ...
I swear to you, Love, by your arrows,And by your powerful holy flame,I care not if by one I'm maimed,My ...
A whip cracks in the wood, and cattle lowAnd through the underbrush are heard toCrash heavily. Leaves rustle. Snowdrops showTheir ...
LOUISATOEMMA,HER FRIEND IN THE EAST-INDIES.THEE EMMA , four slow-circling years have seenPress, with thy pensive foot, Savannas green;Seen thee, with ...
THE CONFIDANT.Anna was young and lovely--in her eyeThe glance of beauty, in her cheek the dye:Her shape was slender, and ...
ON Dinan's walls the morning sunlight plays, Gilds the stern fortress with a crown of rays, Shines on the children's ...
THREE times dark hovering in the east the nightChas'd with black misty wings the lingering light;And thrice the stars with ...
The maid begins.-Where fam'd Coaspes lavesRich Elam's borders with his sacred waves,Along the fields their tents the shepherds spread,By them ...
Long, Dodington, in debt, I long have sought To ease the burden of my graceful thought: And now a ...
Raging storms, evil gods are theyRuthless demons, who in heaven's vault were created, are they,Workers of evil are they,They lift ...
(Erinna was a Greek poetess, a friend and pupil of Sappho of Lesbos. She died at the age of nineteen.) ...
Veil-like and beautifulGathered the dutiful Mist in the night,True to the messaging,Dreamful and presaging Vapour and light.Ghostly and ...
XLVIToday the lady of my heart was born Into this checkered world of joy and pain; And if my eyes ...
I swear to you, Love, by your arrows,And by your powerful holy flame,I care not if by one I'm maimed,My ...
I Once, only once, I saw it clear, -- That Eden every human heart has dreamed A hundred times, but ...
THE LAMP of day, with-ill presaging glare, Dim, cloudy, sank beneath the western wave; Th' inconstant blast howl'd thro' the ...
Fanfare of northwest wind, a bluejay wind announces autumn, and the equinox rolls back blue bays to a far afternoon. ...
To the Memory of the Household It Describes This Poem is Dedicated by the Author "As the Spirit of Darkness ...
He said, and pass'd with sad presaging heart To seek his spouse, his soul's far dearer part; At home he ...
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
This rich Marble doth enterr The honour'd Wife of Winchester, A Vicounts daughter, an Earls heir, Besides what her vertues ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
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