The Mortal Lease (Edith Wharton Poems)
IBecause the currents of our love are pouredThrough the slow welter of the primal floodFrom some blind source of monster-haunted ...
IBecause the currents of our love are pouredThrough the slow welter of the primal floodFrom some blind source of monster-haunted ...
{Bonduca the British queen, taking occasion from a defeat of the Romans to impeach their valor, is rebuked by Caratac.}Queen ...
Thou art sleeping, brother, sleeping In thy lonely battle grave;Shadows o'er the past are creeping,Death, the reaper, still is reaping,Years ...
THE dawn hangs heavy on the distant hill,The darkness shudders slowly into light;And from the weary bosom of the nightThe ...
Once over the ocean in distant lands,In an age long past, were two hostile bands—Two armies of men, both brave, ...
I. Silence! coeval with Eternity;Thou wert, ere Nature's-self began to be,'Twas one vast Nothing, all, and all slept fast in ...
Young and a conqueror, once on a day,Wild white Winter rode out this way;With his sword of ice and his ...
Half a mile, half a mile, Half a mile onward,Right through the Georgia troops Broke the two hundred."Forward the Mule ...
For whatever did it-the cider at the Ship Inn, where the crowd from the bar that night had overflowed singing ...
'The chest is empty' say the sad.Well, yes, we've given all we had.But British breed, and brawn, and brainCan fill ...
Under General Greene, in South Carolina, who fell in the action of September 8, 1781 AT Eutaw Springs the valiant ...
Henry the Seventh of England Wasn't out of the Royal top drawer, The only connection of which he could boast, ...
'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son- Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
Let Elizur rejoice with the Partridge, who is a prisoner of state and is proud of his keepers. Let Shedeur ...
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
Close by those meads, for ever crown'd with flow'rs, Where Thames with pride surveys his rising tow'rs, There stands a ...
'Twas on the heights of Alma the battle began. But the Russians turned and fled every man; Because Sir Colin ...
When the lucent skies of morning flush with dawning rose once more, And waves of golden glory break adown the ...
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