HERODIAS Daughter presenting to her Mother St. JOHN’s Head in a Charger, also Painted by her self (Anne Killigrew Poems)
BEhold, dear Mother, who was late our Fear, Disarm'd and Harmless, I present you here; The Tongue ty'd up, that ...
BEhold, dear Mother, who was late our Fear, Disarm'd and Harmless, I present you here; The Tongue ty'd up, that ...
We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine, We were melted in the furnace and the pit-- We were ...
1903 After Boer War Duly with knees that feign to quake-- Bent head and shaded brow,-- Yet once again, for ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
After the first astounding rush, after the weeks at the lake, the crystal, the clouds, the water lapping the rocks, ...
'Twas in the prime of summer-time An evening calm and cool, And four-and-twenty happy boys Came bounding out of school: ...
Breathe not, hid Heart: cease silently, And though thy birth-hour beckons thee, Sleep the long sleep: The Doomsters heap Travails ...
[Goethe began to write an opera called Lowenstuhl, founded upon the old tradition which forms the subject of this Ballad, ...
THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST'S DESCENT INTO HELL. [THE remarkable Poem of which this is a literal but faint representation, was ...
We can learn from the dead the story directly from God the fate of the rich man a clarion call, ...
When we turn to him trusting in the Lord no reason to fear he is our protection he is our ...
Even before the rumbles the shuttering of the ground before the tragedy of the quake all falling down Christ was ...
Like the Son, triumphant in entry into the holy city there were heralds and portents before the presence of God ...
Tears of frustration welling up, from deep down down within the soul, a tremor a quake in the psyche; innate ...
I In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, ...
Some, when in rhyme they of their loves do tell, With flames and lightnings their exordiums paint; Some call on ...
As the sweet sweat of roses in a still, As that which from chafed musk-cats' pores doth trill, As the ...
Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one: Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot A constant habit; that when I would not ...
Not seeing, still we know -- Not knowing, guess -- Not guessing, smile and hide And half caress -- And ...
I Soul, what art thou in the tribes of the sea? LORD, said a flying fish, Below the foundations of ...
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
Mother of Light, and the Gods! Mother of Music, awake! Silence and speech are at odds; Heaven and Hell are ...
Mother of Light, and the Gods! Mother of Music, awake! Silence and speech are at odds; Heaven and Hell are ...
The double 12 sorwe of Troilus to tellen, That was the king Priamus sone of Troye, In lovinge, how his ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
From Job A spirit passed before me: I beheld The face of immortality unveiled- Deep sleep came down on every ...
HEAR, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;- If there's a hole in a' your coats, ...
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