On the Disastrous Spread of Aestheticism in all Classes (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Impetuously I sprang from bed, Long before lunch was up, That I might drain the dizzy dew From the day's ...
Impetuously I sprang from bed, Long before lunch was up, That I might drain the dizzy dew From the day's ...
Last night thin rain, gusty wind. Dense sleep doesn't fade a wine hangover. I'm talking to her who rolled up ...
I am that hawk of gold Proud in adamantine poise On the pillars of torqoise, See,beyond ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
For Margot Snow that fallest from heaven, bear me aloft on thy wings To the domes of the star-girdled Seven, ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
I am that hawk of gold Proud in adamantine poise On the pillars of torqoise, See,beyond ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
For Margot Snow that fallest from heaven, bear me aloft on thy wings To the domes of the star-girdled Seven, ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
A god in wrath Was beating a man; He cuffed him loudly With thunderous blows That rang and rolled over ...
The day was wet, the rain fell souse Like jars of strawberry jam, a sound was heard in the ...
There is a section in my library for death and another for Irish history, a few shelves for the poetry ...
I woke up, but I was travelling, The train had rolled throughout the night, It was now going toward huge ...
You have heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred ...
I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round, And thought that when I came to lie At ...
Not in the solitude Alone may man commune with heaven, or see Only in savage wood And sunny vale, the ...
The damned ship lurched and slithered. Quiet and quick My cold gorge rose; the long sea rolled; I knew I ...
Black trees against an orange sky, Trees that the wind shook terribly, Like a harsh spume along the road, Quavering ...
The moon, a sweeping scimitar, dipped in the stormy straits, The dawn, a crimson cataract, burst through the eastern gates, ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
(Translated from the French by Edouard Rodti) My wife with the hair of a wood fire With the thoughts of ...
Always for the first time Hardly do I know you by sight You return at some hour of the night ...
THE HUNCHBACK TROUT The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was ...
Look, how those steep woods on the mountain's face Burn, burn against the sunset; now the cold Invades our very ...
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
Away, ye gay landscapes, ye garden of roses! In you let the minions of luxury rove; Restore me to the ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
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