The Power Of God (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
IF the power of God were mine, and the ample turn, I never could dwell in my law, which is 'stablished ...
IF the power of God were mine, and the ample turn, I never could dwell in my law, which is 'stablished ...
"And is there in God's world so drear a place Where the loud bitter cry is raised in vain?Where tears of ...
Drudgery all the day, Drudgery half the night,—Scolded about and worried away,Begrudged of sleep, and victuals and pay,And always in dread ...
FRIEND OF HUMANITY."Needy Knife-grinder! whether are you going?Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order—Bleak blows the Blast;—your ...
It matters not what be our lot Upon this mundane sphere, In spite of fears and burning tears While we shall linger here, We ...
Three droving men, some three weeks sync, Sat drinking the Queensland rum;'Twas four a.m. when twa o' them Saw jock M'Phee succumb.Hech! ...
TRADES and Professions--these are themes the Muse,Left to her freedom, would forbear to choose;But to our Borough they in truth ...
MOODS OF GINGER MICKThis book was dedicated to "THE BOYS WHO TOOK THE ...
GRANNY Bobrov (Playing patience) Now that's the card. Oh, it's all coming out topsy-turvy! A king. And where am I ...
A LITTLE old man, who was cloathed in blue,Whose wants they were many, and friends very few,And whose grief at ...
Mr. Simkin B---n---r---d to Lady B---n---r---d, at --- Hall, North. Salutations of Bath, and an Adventure of Mr. B---n---r---d's in ...
Across the sands of Syria,Or possibly Algeria,Or some benighted neighborhood of barrenness and drouth,There came the Prophet Samu-u-elUpon the Only ...
Not in our public parks, for private gain. This centuries-old precursor of all dramasThat lured babes in old Italy and ...
DER Breitmann sits in la Sorbonne, A note-pook in his hand, 'Tvas dere he vent to lectures, Und in oldt ...
AN we suppress the old Remorse Who bends our heart beneath his stroke, Who feeds, as worms feed on the ...
For God has given us a language of monosyllables to prevent our clipping. For a toad enjoys a finer prospect ...
Though Virtue hurt you Vice is nice; Aye, Parson says it's wrong, Yet for my pleasing I'll suffice With Women, ...
Whenever I go by there nowadays And look at the rank weeds and the strange grass, The torn blue curtains ...
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
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