Shakuntala Act V (Kalidasa Poems)
ACT VSCENE -The PALACE.An old Chamberlain, sighing.Chamberlain.ALAS! What a decrepit old age have I attained! -This wand, which I first ...
ACT VSCENE -The PALACE.An old Chamberlain, sighing.Chamberlain.ALAS! What a decrepit old age have I attained! -This wand, which I first ...
There lies a vale in Ida, lovelierThan all the valleys of Ionian hills.The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen,Puts forth ...
To Britannia.Nay, all this availeth thee nothing— Thy prestige, thy power, and estate,Thy glory, honour, and riches; An enemy sits in the ...
By the late W. W. (of H.M. Inland Revenue Service).And is it so? Can Folly stalkAnd aim her unrespecting dartsIn ...
I grieve to see you waste your Time,And turn your Thoughts so much to Rhyme,Be wise--your useless Views resign,And fly ...
A Sabbath morn — softly the village bellsRing out their welcome to the sacred day.The weary swain has drunk of ...
(Kamo-no-Chomei, born at Kamo 1154, died at Toyama on Mount Hino, 24th June 1216) Swirl sleeping in the waterfall! On ...
Sweet rural scene Of flocks and green! At careless ease my limbs are spread; All nature still, But yonder rill; ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
Walk up! Walk up to the Bureaucratic Fair!All the tasters and the testers and the tallymen are there. All the ...
As one of some fat tillage dispossessed, Weighing the yield of these four faded years, If any ask what fruit ...
In that desolate land and lone, Where the Big Horn and Yellowstone Roar down their mountain path, By their fires ...
Now the New Year, reviving last Year's Debt, The Thoughtful Fisher casteth wide his Net; So I with begging Dish ...
To tag, or not to tag: that is the problem: Whether 'tis nobler in the whole to endure The slings ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
As one of some fat tillage dispossessed, Weighing the yield of these four faded years, If any ask what fruit ...
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
Margaret Simpson was the daughter of humble parents in the county of Ayr, With a comely figure, and face of ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
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