The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Omar Khayyam Poem)
I. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
I. Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
The banked oars fell an hundred strong, And backed and threshed and ground, But bitter was the rowers' song As ...
October, 1918 Across a world where all men grieve And grieving strive the more, The great days range like tides ...
And a merchant said, "Speak to us of Buying and Selling." And he answered and said: To you the earth ...
This season of our faith from Ash Wednesday to Easter the season of reflection, of Lent so unlike the Advent ...
I have been thinking, praying too often these last two days the throw-away expletive His counsel, this officer of the ...
JOHN courts Perrette; but all in vain; Love's sweetest oaths, and tears, and sighs All potent spells her heart to ...
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
The Beaver's Lesson They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move ...
Since now from woodland mist and flooded clay I am fled beside the steep Devonian shore, Nor stand for welcome ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
In some summers there is so much fruit, the peasants decide not to reap any more. Not having reaped you, ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
FIRST VOICE So long adrift, so fast aground, What foam and ruin have we found- We, the Wise Brothers? Could ...
Once upon a time there was a number Pure and round like the sun But alone very much alone It ...
'Ye have robb'd,' said he, 'ye have slaughter'd and made an end, Take your ill-got plunder, and bury the dead: ...
I Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold. Whom no compassion fleers ...
As one put drunk into the Packet-boat, Tom May was hurry'd hence and did not know't. But was amaz'd on ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
In this Monody the author bewails a learned Friend, unfortunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, ...
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