The Dong with a Luminous Nose (Edward Lear Poem)
When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights; -- When the ...
When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights; -- When the ...
It was built of bark and poles, and the floor was full of holes Where each leak in rainy weather ...
(For Edward J. Wheeler) Within the Jersey City shed The engine coughs and shakes its head, The smoke, a plume ...
THE soul of man Resembleth water: From heaven it cometh, To heaven it soareth. And then again To earth descendeth, ...
SONG OF THE IMPRISONED COUNT. COUNT. I KNOW a flower of beauty rare, Ah, how I hold it dear! To ...
THE plain with still and wand'ring feet, And gun full-charged, I tread, And hov'ring see thine image sweet, Thine image ...
BUSH and vale thou fill'st again With thy misty ray, And my spirit's heavy chain Castest far away. Thou dost ...
WHAT pulls at my heart so? What tells me to roam? What drags me and lures me From chamber and ...
Now, joy is born of parents poor, And pleasure of our richer kind; Though pleasure's free, she cannot sing As ...
There is a word Which bears a sword Can pierce an armed man -- It hurls its barbed syllables And ...
Nothing's certain. Crossing, on this longest day, the low-tide-uncovered isthmus, scrambling up the scree-slope of what at high tide will ...
I THERE is one Mind, one omnipresent Mind, Omnific. His most holy name is Love. Truth of subliming import! with ...
There is a meadow in Sweden where I lie smitten, eyes stained with clouds' white ins and outs. And about ...
I. How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn-evenings come: And where, my soul, ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
SHE wanders in the April woods, That glisten with the fallen shower; She leans her face against the buds, She ...
AFAR 1 the illustrious Exile roams, Whom kingdoms on this day should hail; An inmate in the casual shed, On ...
Don't go far off, not even for a day, because -- because -- I don't know how to say it: ...
Don't go far off, not even for a day Don't go far off, not even for a day, Because I ...
The ostrich roams the great Sahara. Its mouth is wide, its neck is narra. It has such long and lofty ...
Desine, Paulle, meum lacrimis urgere sepulcrum: nempe tuas lacrimas litora surda bibent. Propertius, IV.11 Don't cry for me, for only ...
Today your things depart. Your faience cup fell off the table at sunrise and cracked. Your old grey dog did ...
She has not yet been born: she is music and word, and therefore the untorn, fabric of what is stirred. ...
When in death I shall calmly recline, O bear my heart to my mistress dear, Tell her it lived upon ...
What life like that of the bard can be -- The wandering bard, who roams as free As the mountain ...
A man roams the streets with a basket of freestone peaches hollering, "Peaches, peaches, yellow freestone peaches for sale." My ...
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