Yvytot (Eugene Field Poem)
Where wail the waters in their flaw A spectre wanders to and fro, And evermore that ghostly shore Bemoans the ...
Where wail the waters in their flaw A spectre wanders to and fro, And evermore that ghostly shore Bemoans the ...
GOD save the Rights of Man! Give us a heart to scan Blessings so dear: Let them be spread around ...
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play, Which oft resumes its fascinating sway; Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or ...
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find, It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind: Brown bread as well as white must ...
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled): Six months his better half he left with child, A simple, comely, ...
WHEN Cupid with his dart, would hearts assail, The rampart most secure is not the VEIL; A husband better will ...
IF once in love, you'll soon invention find And not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind; The youngest 'prentice, ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
TO serve the shop as 'prentice was the lot; Of one who had the name of Nicaise got; A lad ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
We make ourselves a place apart Behind light words that tease and flout, But oh, the agitated hear Till someone ...
One evening at dusk as Noah stood on his Ark, Putting green oil in starboard side lamp, His wife came ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
"Why do I love" You, Sir? Because -- The Wind does not require the Grass To answer -- Wherefore when ...
Revolving in their destin'd sphere, The hours begin another year As rapidly to fly; Ah! think, Maria, (e'er in grey ...
"MY First - but don't suppose," he said, "I'm setting you a riddle - Is - if your Victim be ...
There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man. You can make him carry a plank of wood to the ...
No, though our all be spent-- Heart's extremest love, Spirit's whole intent, All that nerve can feel, All that brain ...
What shall I render to Thy name Or how Thy praises speak? My thanks how shall I testify? O Lord, ...
In my distress I sought the Lord When naught on earth could comfort give, And when my soul these things ...
There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man. You can make him carry a plank of wood to the ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
I. All I believed is true! I am able yet All I want, to get By a method as strange ...
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