Elegy I (Henry James Pye Poems)
O Happiness! thou wish of every mind, Whose form, more subtle than the fleeting air, Leaves all thy votaries wandering far behind, Eludes ...
O Happiness! thou wish of every mind, Whose form, more subtle than the fleeting air, Leaves all thy votaries wandering far behind, Eludes ...
I heard the voice of the Death Angel speak, As slowly he pass'd me by,And I saw him throw snow on ...
O hideous little bat, the size of snot,With polyhedral eye and shabby clothes,To populate the stinking cat you walkThe promontory ...
As long as lure o' placer gold Brings North the best ye breed,As long as tales of camps and trails Are planted ...
The point I advance, if it need confirmation, I'll prove by a witness that few will dispute, A pink of perfection and ...
On and on they march Over Neringa quicksands, Bent and sped on by the westerner, Tall, speechless and boughless pine trees, With crowns tossed ...
ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS. Tristitiam et Metus.--HORACE.Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride,Assume the pompous port, the ...
IOh, for the power to call to aid, of mineOwn humble Muse, the famed and sacred nine.Then might she fitly ...
WAINAMOINEN FINDS THE LOST-WORD.Wainamoinen, old and truthful,Did not learn the words of magicIn Tuoni's gloomy regions,In the kingdom of Manala.Thereupon ...
KULLERVO AND THE CHEAT-CAKE.Thereupon the lad, Kullervo,Laid his luncheon in his basket,Drove the herd to mountain-pastures,O'er the hills and through ...
DEDICATIONQUEEN of my Life, who gave me for my song The richest crown a poet ever wore, Since ...
Two years ago I was thinking On the changes that years bring forth;Now I stand where I then stood drinking ...
In vain for thee, the gifts proud Nature gave,The faultless person, and the exalted mind,The martial spirit which adorns the ...
The sailor worn by toil and wet with storms,As in the wished-for port secure he rides,With transport numbers o'er the ...
They sing of the puncher--that knight of the range who rounds up the bellerin' steer;Who rides at the head of ...
Guard me, Lord, when I'm a -ridin''Crost the dusty range out there,From the dangers that are hidin'On the trails, so ...
Leagues of blue ocean are between us spread;And I cannot behold thee, save in dreams!I cannot hear the music round ...
Pilot of the soul, awake,Save us for thy mercies' sake;Now rebuke the angry deep,Save, O save thy sinking ship!Stand at ...
BOOK FIRST. I. ALL valor died not on the plains of Troy. Awake, my Muse, awake! be thine the joy ...
Watchman, what of the night? - Storm and thunder and rain, Lights that waver and wane, Leaving the watchfires unlit. ...
'Perspective betrays with its dichotomy: train tracks always meet, not here, but only in the impossible mind's eye; horizons beat ...
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