UPON HER EYES (Robert Herrick Poem)
Clear are her eyes, Like purest skies; Discovering from thence A baby there That turns each sphere, Like an Intelligence. ...
Clear are her eyes, Like purest skies; Discovering from thence A baby there That turns each sphere, Like an Intelligence. ...
When man had ceased to utter his lament, A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow. WHAT hope ...
'MIDST the noise of merriment and glee, 'Midst full many a sorrow, many a care, Charlotte, I remember, we remember ...
The morn arrived; his footstep quickly scared The gentle sleep that round my senses clung, And I, awak'ning, from my ...
DRINK, oh youth, joy's purest ray From thy loved one's eyes all day, And her image paint at night! Better ...
TOGETHER at the altar we In vision oft were seen by thee, Thyself as bride, as bridegroom I. Oft from ...
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods ...
Way darker than violet rich, saturated, pure color-wheel-purple shimmering color of the lilacs full bouquets on each branch bunches and ...
NOW the lusty spring is seen; Golden yellow, gaudy blue, Daintily invite the view: Everywhere on every green Roses blushing ...
WHEN Francis (named the first) o'er Frenchmen reign'd, In Italy young Arthur laurels gained, And oft such daring valour showed ...
Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their ...
Himself it was who wrote His rank, and quartered his own coat. There is no king nor sovereign state That ...
Although thy hand and faith, and good works too, Have sealed thy love which nothing should undo, Yea though thou ...
Where I have lost, I softer tread -- I sow sweet flower from garden bed -- I pause above that ...
I cannot let the moment pass without a weary greeting, or retard the recent past where shadows still are fleeting, ...
It's a ruling from the field of pain (devoid of antique nave, a judgement process aptly named 'benefit of doubt'); ...
God made the wicked Grocer For a mystery and a sign, That men might shun the awful shops And go ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, With the old Moon in her arms ; And I fear, I ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
Brightly the sun of summer shone, Green fields and waving woods upon, And soft winds wandered by; Above, a sky ...
A ship that bears much sail, and little ballast, is easily overset; and that man, whose head hath great abilities, ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
The roses of Love glad the garden of life, Though nurtur'd 'mid weeds dropping pestilent dew, Till Time crops the ...
WHITE maiden with the russet hair, Whose garments, through their holes, declare That poverty is part of you, And beauty ...
All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee: All the wonder and wealth ...
ON Cessnock banks a lassie dwells; Could I describe her shape and mein; Our lasses a' she far excels, An' ...
Even in a palace, life may be led well! So spake the imperial sage, purest of men, Marcus Aurelius. But ...
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