The Fair Nun (Elijah Fenton Poems)
Ire per Ignes,Et gladios ausim. Neque ad hoc tamen ignibus ullis,Aut gladiis opus est; opus est mihi Crine. —Ovid. Met. ...
Ire per Ignes,Et gladios ausim. Neque ad hoc tamen ignibus ullis,Aut gladiis opus est; opus est mihi Crine. —Ovid. Met. ...
First-born of Chaos, who so fair didst comeFrom the old Negro's darksome womb!Which, when it saw the lovely child,The melancholy ...
O perfect Light, which shaid away The darkness from the light,And set a ruler o'er the day, Another o'er the ...
SWEET girl! affection's pleading voice attend,And hear the tender counsels of a friend;By friendship's pen impress'd, these lines receive,And tho' ...
Now, while she's changing, said the Dean, "Her bridal for her traveling dress, I'll preach allegiance to your queen! Preaching's ...
Powder and scent and silence. The young dwarf Shoulders his lute. The moon is Levantine. It settles its pearl in ...
All that pass by, To Jesus draw near,He utters a cry, Ye sinners, give ear!From hell to retrieve you He ...
Nature is Music;—and the mystic tale, No fable to the well-attempered ear, Which sings that harmony tunes every sphere In ...
Under the bunker, where the reek of kerosene Prepared the marriage rite, leader and whore, Imperfect kindling even in this ...
The man who stands above the bird, his knife Sharp as a Turkish scimitar, first removes A thigh and leg, ...
Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good ...
To seem the stranger lies my lot, my life Among strangers. Father and mother dear, Brothers and sisters are in ...
Faith empowers, liberates removes the chains, the weights, the shackles on their feet, the spirits of their lives Enabling the ...
A vision of the kingdom of Christ among men. Rev. 21:1-4. Lo! what a glorious sight appears To our believing ...
v.8-18 L. M. God's gentle chastisement; or, His tender mercy to his people. The Lord, how wondrous are his ways! ...
That which we had we still possess, Though leaves may drop and stars may fall; No circumstance can make it ...
Though the world keeps changing its form as fast as a cloud, still what is accomplished falls home to the ...
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Still sober, César Vallejo comes home and finds a black ribbon around the apartment building covering the front door. He ...
A solitary apartment house, the last one before the boulevard ends and a dusty road winds its slow way out ...
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