Act of Union (Seamus Heaney Poem)
I To-night, a first movement, a pulse, As if the rain in bogland gathered head To slip and flood: a ...
I To-night, a first movement, a pulse, As if the rain in bogland gathered head To slip and flood: a ...
In nineteen hundred forty-nine China was won by Mao Tse-tung Chiang Kai-shek's army ran away They were waiting there in ...
They each spoke, crying to our creator, to our savior, to our shared creed, our shared beliefs speaking, praying, invoking ...
There was a certain gentleman, Ben Apfelgarten called, Who lived way off in Germany a many years ago, And he ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, Made in the last promotion of the Blest; Whose palms, new pluck'd from Paradise, ...
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
The Province of the Saved Should be the Art -- To save -- Through Skill obtained in Themselves -- The ...
One Crucifixion is recorded -- only -- How many be Is not affirmed of Mathematics -- Or History -- One ...
Just over the horizon a great machine of death is roaring and rearing. One can hear it always. Earthquake, starvation, ...
How bless'd Thy creature is, O God, When with a single eye, He views the lustre of Thy Word, The ...
I am standing on a disused iron bridge that was erected in 1902, according to the iron plaque bolted into ...
What scene would I want to be enveloped in more than this one, an ordinary night at the kitchen table, ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
The world is full of women who'd tell me I should be ashamed of myself if they had the chance. ...
FAREWEEL to a' our Scottish fame, Fareweel our ancient glory; Fareweel ev'n to the Scottish name, Sae fam'd in martial ...
Fareweel to a' our Scottish fame, Fareweel our ancient glory; Fareweel ev'n to the Scottish name, Sae famed in martial ...
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
Not with more glories, in th' etherial plain, The sun first rises o'er the purpled main, Than, issuing forth, the ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
Unlucky the hero born In this province of the stuck record Where the most watchful cooks go jobless And the ...
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine; This living, this living, this living Was never ...
Kung walked by the dynastic temple and into the cedar grove, and then out by the lower river, And with ...
'Twas in the year of 1887, and on the 28th of September, Which many people of Honan, in China, will ...
Holland, that scarce deserves the name of Land, As but th'Off-scouring of the Brittish Sand; And so much Earth as ...
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
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