Ruth (Thomas Hood Poem)
She stood breast-high amid the corn, Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who ...
She stood breast-high amid the corn, Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who ...
When my devotions could not pierce Thy silent ears; Then was my heart broken, as was my verse: My breast ...
IF thou to be a slave shouldst will, Thou'lt get no pity, but fare ill; And if a master thou ...
DREADED Brama, lord of might! All proceed from thee alone; Thou art he who judgeth right! Dost thou none but ...
[I feel considerable hesitation in venturing to offer this version of a poem which Carlyle describes to be 'a beautiful ...
OH, my Theresa dear! Thine eyes, I greatly fear, Can through the bandage see! Although thine eyes are bound, By ...
THIS page a chain to bring thee burns, That, train'd to suppleness of old, On thy fair neck to nestle, ...
HALF vex'd, half pleased, thy love will feel, Shouldst thou her knot or ribbon steal; To thee they're much--I won't ...
Trees in groves, Kine in droves, In ocean sport the scaly herds, Wedge-like cleave the air the birds, To northern ...
Dear, why should you command me to my rest When now the night doth summon all to sleep? Methinks this ...
Sing out, my soul, thy songs of joy; Sing as a happy bird will sing Beneath a rainbow's lovely arch ...
Ask not the cause why sullen spring So long delays her flow'rs to bear; Why warbling birds forget to sing, ...
When by thy scorn, O murd'ress, I am dead, And that thou think'st thee free From all solicitation from me, ...
Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
Severed and gone, so many years! And art thou still so dear to me, That throbbing heart and burning tears ...
I mourn with thee and yet rejoice That thou shouldst sorrow so; With Angel choirs I join my voice To ...
Believe not those who say The upward path is smooth, Lest thou shouldst stumble in the way And faint before ...
Jan 7th A dreadful darkness closes in On my bewildered mind; O let me suffer and not sin, Be tortured ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
THIS last denial of my faith, Thou, solemn Priest, hast heard; And, though upon my bed of death, I call ...
The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by, As if they loved to breast the breeze ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
I My love, this is the bitterest, that thou Who art all truth and who dost love me now As ...
Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill; Go, shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes! No longer leave thy ...
Five months ago the stream did flow, The lilies bloomed within the sedge, And we were lingering to and fro, ...
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