Shadows Before (Henry Lawson Poem)
"Like clouds o'er the South are the nations who reign On fair islands that we would command; But clouds that ...
"Like clouds o'er the South are the nations who reign On fair islands that we would command; But clouds that ...
They stood by the door of the Inn on the Rise; May Carney looked up in the bushranger's eyes: `Oh! ...
Why is that wanton gossip Fame So dumb about this man's affairs? Why do we titter at his name Who ...
O golden-tongued Romance with serene lute! Fair plumed Syren! Queen of far away! Leave melodizing on this wintry day, Shut ...
O golden-tongued Romance with serene lute! Fair plumed Syren! Queen of far away! Leave melodizing on this wintry day, Shut ...
'Twas in the prime of summer-time An evening calm and cool, And four-and-twenty happy boys Came bounding out of school: ...
I When of tender mind and body I was moved by minstrelsy, And that strain "The Bridge of Lodi" Brought ...
Where once we danced, where once we sang, Gentlemen, The floors are sunken, cobwebs hang, And cracks creep; worms have ...
The bugler sent a call of high romance- "Lights out! Lights out!" to the deserted square. On the thin brazen ...
At first she was sure it was just a bit of dried strawberry juice, or a fleck of her mother's ...
No Romance sold unto Could so enthrall a Man As the perusal of His Individual One -- 'Tis Fiction's -- ...
I Before I grew this spacesuit I was trim. I saw it in a doctor's report: "The subject is an ...
I've known the pleasures of being fired at least eleven times- most notably by Larry who found my snood unsuitable, ...
WHITE maiden with the russet hair, Whose garments, through their holes, declare That poverty is part of you, And beauty ...
Pamela was too gentle to deceive Her roses. "Let the men stay where they are," She said, "and if Apollo's ...
O sing, fair lady, when with me Sad songs of Georgia no more: They bring into my memory Another life, ...
Come, rest awhile, and let us idly stray In glimmering valleys, cool and far away. Come from the greedy mart, ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
I have opened the window to warm my hands on the sill Where the sunlight soaks in the stone: the ...
I. EDWIN BOOTH An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a ...
Oft seems the Time a market-town Where many merchant-spirits meet Who up and down and up and down Cry out ...
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
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