Festus – XIV (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Even while a starMight twinkle twice, or calm, retiring sea,Irresolute yet to leave, his moonlit kissShimmering repeat upon the impassive ...
Even while a starMight twinkle twice, or calm, retiring sea,Irresolute yet to leave, his moonlit kissShimmering repeat upon the impassive ...
Stern Winter! stormy, sullen, cold, and dun,Thou joyless outcast from the genial sun,Thou gloomiest offspring of the rolling year,With front ...
There is no cord, however strong, That time will not its fibers rend,Nor weary road, however long, But constant march will find ...
On the Birth of the Prince Imperial of Francexhausted, faint, and pale, A fair young mother lies—She hears her babe's first ...
The other day I chanced to meetAn angry man upon the street -A man of wrath, a man of war,A ...
Preludes.I The Comparison Where she succeeds with cloudless brow, ...
Law! what is law? The wise and sage, Of every clime and every age, In this most cordially unite, That ...
604Unto my Books-so good to turn-Far ends of tired Days-It half endears the Abstinence-And Pain-is missed-in Praise-As Flavors-cheer Retarded GuestsWith ...
100A science - so the Savants say,"Comparative Anatomy" -By which a single bone -Is made a secret to unfoldOf some ...
Oh, that I could sinne once see!We paint the devil foul, yet heHath some good in him, all agree.Sinne is ...
She rose to his requirement, droppedThe playthings of her lifeTo take the honorable workOf woman and of wife.If aught she ...
I heard an echo of it, as I spoke to a prospective client it was his voice his telephone voice ...
Unto my Books -- so good to turn -- Far ends of tired Days -- It half endears the Abstinence ...
She rose to His Requirement -- dropt The Playthings of Her Life To take the honorable Work Of Woman, and ...
How well I knew Her not Whom not to know has been A Bounty in prospective, now Next Door to ...
Crisis is sweet and yet the Heart Upon the hither side Has Dowers of Prospective To Denizens denied Inquire of ...
As plan for Noon and plan for Night So differ Life and Death In positive Prospective -- The Foot upon ...
A science -- so the Savants say, "Comparative Anatomy" -- By which a single bone -- Is made a secret ...
How Human Nature dotes On what it can't detect. The moment that a Plot is plumbed Prospective is extinct -- ...
Many a phrase has the English language -- I have heard but one -- Low as the laughter of the ...
I KNOW a Jew fish crier down on Maxwell Street with a voice like a north wind blowing over corn ...
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