King Cophetua And The Beggar-Maid (Henry Morley Poems)
I read that once in Africa A princely wight did reign,Who had to name Cophetua, As poets they did feign:From nature's laws ...
I read that once in Africa A princely wight did reign,Who had to name Cophetua, As poets they did feign:From nature's laws ...
Lord Dunmore's Petition to the Legislature of VirginiaHUMBLY SHOWETH,THAT a silly old fellow, much noted of yore,And known by the ...
The world's affairs have all become turned upside down:All those ways are not now, as they used to be seen ...
(India)I shall wind a turban of silver cloth,And set upon its brow a circletOf jade and turquoise. Yea, I shall ...
A song to the oak, the brave old oak,Who hath ruled in the greenwood long;Here's health and renown to his ...
Every misfortune that befell me, throughout the whole period of my life,When examined carefully, I found it was all the ...
All glory be to God on high,Who hath our race befriended!To us no harm shall now come nigh,The strife at ...
The Lord is my teacher,I shall not lose the way to wisdom.He leadeth me in the lowly path of learning,He ...
Ah, what a day He hath made, He hath made!It flasheth abright and asweet, and asweet.It showeth His love and ...
WHAT should be said of him cannot be said;By too great splendor is his name attended;To blame is easier than ...
Spring hath returned: the narcissus in the garden wantoneth,And the breeze of the morning, the spikenard disordereth.For five short days, ...
On the next morning,--so by heavenly Voice Instructed,--unto Pharaoh went again Moses and Aaron; craving to be heard, Because of ...
Ah! the pleasant time hath vanished, ere our wretched doubtingsbanished,All the graceful spirit-people, children of the earth and sea,Whom in ...
Although great Lady. it may seeme right strangeThat I a stranger should presume thus farre,To write to you: yet as ...
This is the tale that the ChronicleTells of the wonderful miracleWrought by the pious Padre Serro,The very reverend Junipero.The heathen ...
Let us seek the modest May,She is down in the glen,Hiding and abidingFrom the common gaze of men,Where the silver ...
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handy-work.Psalm xix. 1. NO cloud obscures the summer ...
FAIR dog, which so my heart dost tear asunder, That my life's-blood, my bowels, overfloweth, Alas, what wicked rage conceal'st ...
To hear an Oriole sing May be a common thing -- Or only a divine. It is not of the ...
'Twas grav'd on the Stone of Destiny, In letters four, and letters three; And ne'er did the King of the ...
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
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