Charades (Charles Stuart Calverley Poems)
I.She stood at Greenwich, motionless amid The ever-shifting crowd of passengers.I marked a big tear quivering on the lid Of ...
I.She stood at Greenwich, motionless amid The ever-shifting crowd of passengers.I marked a big tear quivering on the lid Of ...
IWith love exceeding a simple love of the thingsThat glide in grasses and rubble of woody wreck;Or change their perch ...
Over the darkened city, the city of towers,The city of a thousand gates,Over the gleaming terraced roofs, the huddled towers,Over ...
Over the darkened city, the city of towers,The city of a thousand gates,Over the gleaming terraced roofs, the huddled towers,Over ...
Bursts from a rending East in flawsThe young green leaflet's harrier, swornTo strew the garden, strip the shaws,And show our ...
GOATS go past the back of the house like dry leaves in the dawn,And up the hill like a ...
Joseph Jones and Peter Dawking Strove in an election fight; And you'd think, to hear them talking, ...
(SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA)Shrewdly you question, Senor, and I fancyYou are no novice. Confess that to littleOf my poor gossip of Mission ...
We'd harbored them on hovels, and in dens, Altho' in price they counted less than cattle,Had they not still the ...
The earliest lady in the land, Her pride of caste is high.Where blue Corio's gleaming strand Dream 'neath a peaceful ...
Once on a Time it by Chance came to pass, That a Man and his Son were leading an Ass. ...
Dead Cleopatra lies in a crystal casket, Wrapped and spiced by the cunningest of hands. Around her neck they have ...
"LEAN close and set thine ear against the bark; Then tell me what faint, murmurous sounds are heard: Hath not ...
THE blue above, the sheep-shorn grass beneath, Over the shoulder of the Down we sped, And saw the picture of ...
What say you, critic, now you have becomeAn author and maternal?--in this trap(To quote you) of poor hollow folk who ...
MUTE or loquacious, as chance may require,Shrewdly complacent, quick to equivocate,Bluff, bully, browbeat, brag, conciliate,Cant, sympathise, or jest - both ...
"You ought to have seen what I saw on my way To the village, through Mortenson's pasture to-day: Blueberries as ...
Yesterday is History, 'Tis so far away -- Yesterday is Poetry -- 'Tis Philosophy -- Yesterday is mystery -- Where ...
Over the darkened city, the city of towers, The city of a thousand gates, Over the gleaming terraced roofs, the ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
Between me and the sunset, like a dome Against the glory of a world on fire, Now burned a sudden ...
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