TO THE COUNTESS GRANVILLE. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poem)
MY DEAR LADY GRANVILLE,-- THE reluctance which must naturally be felt by any one in venturing to give to the ...
MY DEAR LADY GRANVILLE,-- THE reluctance which must naturally be felt by any one in venturing to give to the ...
WITHIN the chamber, far away From the glad feast, sits Love in dread Lest guests disturb, in wanton play, The ...
In the story of Patroclus no one survives, not even Achilles who was nearly a god. Patroclus resembled him; they ...
The flower in the glass peanut bottle formerly in the kitchen crooked to take a place in the light, the ...
Relying on God stepping into the breach ministering to others sharing God's love ever to all that we meet No ...
Fervent prayer in the temple a woman mouthing her petition to God watched by a judging priest; but not for ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
Though loth to grieve The evil time's sole patriot, I cannot leave My buried thought For the priest's cant, Or ...
I Alphonso live and learn, Seeing nature go astern. Things deteriorate in kind, Lemons run to leaves and rind, Meagre ...
Higher far, Upward, into the pure realm, Over sun or star, Over the flickering Dæmon film, Thou must mount for ...
Phoebus, arise! And paint the sable skies With azure, white, and red: Rouse Memnon's mother from her Tithon's bed That ...
To Humor You cannot love, my pretty heart, and why? There was a time you told me that you would; ...
It pleased the Lord of Angels (praise His name!) To hear, one day, report from those who came With pitying ...
Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or ...
In the story of Patroclus no one survives, not even Achilles who was nearly a god. Patroclus resembled him; they ...
While you walk the water's edge, turning over concepts I can't envision, the honking buoy serves notice that at any ...
Verse, a Breeze 'mid blossoms straying, Where HOPE clung feeding, like a bee-- Both were mine ! Life went a-maying ...
"DON'T they consult the 'Victims,' though?" I said. "They should, by rights, Give them a chance - because, you know, ...
"AND did you really walk," said I, "On such a wretched night? I always fancied Ghosts could fly - If ...
Now as an angler melancholy standing Upon a green bank yielding room for landing, A wriggling yellow worm thrust on ...
I. The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves, one of the necessities, so ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
Remote and ineffectual Don That dared attack my Chesterton, With that poor weapon, half-impelled, Unlearnt, unsteady, hardly held, Unworthy for ...
I. Your ghost will walk, you lover of trees, (If our loves remain) In an English lane, By a cornfield-side ...
Si credere dignum est.--Virgil, Georgics, III, 390 Oh, worthy of belief I hold it was, Virgil, your legend in those ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
Man I am and man would be, Love--merest man and nothing more. Bid me seem no other! Eagles boast of ...
I am poor brother Lippo, by your leave! You need not clap your torches to my face. Zooks, what's to ...
Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity! Draw round my bed: is Anselm keeping back? Nephews -- sons mine -- ah God, ...
What is he buzzing in my ears? "Now that I come to die, Do I view the world as a ...
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