The Bibliomaniac’s Prayer (Eugene Field Poems)
Keep me, I pray, in wisdom's way That I may truths eternal seek; I need protecting care to-day,-- My purse ...
Keep me, I pray, in wisdom's way That I may truths eternal seek; I need protecting care to-day,-- My purse ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
A DEMON, blacker in his skin than heart, So great a charm was prompted to impart; To one in love, ...
WHO knows the world will never feel surprise, When men are duped by artful women's eves; Though death his weapon ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
A Thriving Merchant, who no Loss sustained, In little time a mighty Fortune gain'd. No Pyrate seiz'd his still returning ...
A WIT, transported with Inditing, Unpay'd, unprais'd, yet ever Writing; Who, for all Fights and Fav'rite Friends, Had Poems at ...
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
I let myself in at the kitchen door. "It's you," she said. "I can't get up. Forgive me Not answering ...
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
A stranger came to the door at eve, And he spoke the bridegroom fair. He bore a green-white stick in ...
On Jubilee Day the Ramsbottoms Invited relations to tea, Including young Albert's grandmother- An awkward old . . party, was ...
There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool, That's noted for fresh air and fun, And Mr and Mrs Ramsbottom Went ...
There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool, That's noted for fresh air and fun, And Mr and Mrs Ramsbottom Went ...
You've `eard `ow young Albert Ramsbottom At the zoo up at Blackpool one year With a stick with an `orse's ...
Though loth to grieve The evil time's sole patriot, I cannot leave My buried thought For the priest's cant, Or ...
No spring nor summer Beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnall face. Young beauties force our ...
Of Brussels -- it was not -- Of Kidderminster? Nay -- The Winds did buy it of the Woods -- ...
The other day I listened to a man on the radio who made uncommon common sense, 'specially since it was ...
If the debate rages in the pages of the news today then I'm confused, I've searched and found no evidence. ...
The mystery of a smile that glows within your eyes and is framed in an innocent countenance passes not unheeded. ...
Sharp was the frost, the wind was high And sparkling stars bedeckt the sky Sly Dick in arts of cunning ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
If you have nothing to say keep silent let Ezra Pound speak from the shadows the splendid old man from ...
Lo, now four other act upon the stage, Childhood and Youth, the Many and Old age: The first son unto ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
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