On Seeing a Pupil of Kung-sun Dance the Chien-ch`i (Tu Fu Poems)
On the nineteenth day of the tenth month of the second year of Ta-li (15 November 767), in the residence ...
On the nineteenth day of the tenth month of the second year of Ta-li (15 November 767), in the residence ...
A POET once, whose tuneful soul, perchance,Too fondly leaned toward sin, and sin's romance,On a long vanished eve, so calm ...
Ye many twinkling stars, who yet do holdYour brilliant places in the sable vaultOf night's dominions!—Planets, and central orbsOf other ...
In sorrow youth passes, in sorrows and pains,Angrily boils the blood in the veins;Lowering brows - the mind cannot see,Is ...
Giant aggregate of nations, Glorious Whole of glorious Parts,Unto endless generations Live United, hands and hearts!Be it storm or summer-weather, Peaceful calm, or ...
There's one rides very sagely on the road,Showing that he affects the gravest mode.Another rides tantivy, or full trot,To show ...
THE SPAGNOLETTO.DRAMATIS PERSONAE.DON JOHN of AUSTRIA.JOSEF RIBERA, the Spagnoletto.LORENZO, noble young Italian artist, pupil of Ribera.DON TOMMASO MANZANO.LUCA, servant to ...
Among the numerous fools, by Fate design'd Oft to disturb, and oft divert, mankind, The reading coxcomb is of special ...
Like a flood river whirled at rocky banks,An army issues out of wilderness,With battle plucking round its ragged flanks;Obstruction in ...
On the nineteenth day of the tenth month of the second year of Ta-li (15 November 767), in the residence ...
On a background of pale goldI would trace with quaint design,Penciled fine,Brilliant-colored, Moorish scenes,Mosques and crescents, pages, queens,Line on line,That ...
JONES plays the deuce with his grammar,Knocks time and tense into tin-tacks ;Brown, the big Visigoth, wielding blunt hammer,Mauls right ...
(AFTER SPENSER)Lo! where the castle of bold Pfeiffer throwsIts sullen shadow on the rolling tide,--No more the home where joy ...
you may get fed up with me she says (seing herself slightly) fearing old age in a woman must render ...
If I don't write something good tonight I will sleep without the comforting Canopus of deep believers, if I sleep ...
As night hath stars, more rare than ships In ocean, faint from pole to pole, So all the wonder of ...
As night hath stars, more rare than ships In ocean, faint from pole to pole, So all the wonder of ...
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
'Twas the horse thief, Andy Regan, that was hunted like a dog By the troopers of the upper Murray side, ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
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