TO My Lord Colrane, In Answer to his Complemental Verses sent me under the Name of CLEANOR (Anne Killigrew Poem)
LOng my dull Muse in heavy slumbers lay, Indulging Sloth, and to soft Ease gave way, Her Fill of Rest ...
LOng my dull Muse in heavy slumbers lay, Indulging Sloth, and to soft Ease gave way, Her Fill of Rest ...
Away by the lands of the Japanee Where the paper lanterns glow And the crews of all the shipping drink ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
Full many a dreary hour have I past, My brain bewildered, and my mind o'ercast With heaviness; in seasons when ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
Beyond the narrows of the Inner Hebrides We sailed the cold angry sea toward Barra, where Heaval mountain Lifts like ...
King Francis was a hearty king, and loved a royal sport, And one day as his lions fought, sat looking ...
Not in rich furniture, or fine array, Nor in a wedge of gold, Thou, who from me wast sold, To ...
YES, write, if you want to, there's nothing like trying; Who knows what a treasure your casket may hold? I'll ...
Children, I come back today To tell you a story of the long dark way That I had to climb, ...
(i) introduction his home in ruins his parents gone frederick seeks to reclaim his throne to the golden mountain he ...
fog owns the town in its palm lawyers nibble each other's fingers the churches take their cut at the fat ...
HE. CANST thou give, oh fair and matchless maiden, 'Neath the shadow of the lindens yonder,-- Where I'd fain one ...
THE queen in the lofty hall takes her place, The tapers around her are flaming; She speaks to the page: ...
I ONCE was fond of fools, And bid them come each day; Then each one brought his tools The carpenter ...
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter, And from the orchard a voice echoes and ...
NO easy matter 'tis to hold, Against its owner's will, the fleece Who troubled by the itching smart Of Cupid's ...
"OH, let's go up the hill and scare ourselves, As reckless as the best of them to-night, By setting fire ...
It was long I lay Awake that night Wishing that night Would name the hour And tell me whether To ...
A blackbird lands A good beer-barrel A man sits in a cave knitting A theatre in Copenhagen Abask the sea-wall ...
I'll tell you the story of Jonah, A really remarkable tale; A peaceful and humdrum existence he had Until one ...
My Fair, if thou wilt register my love, A world of volumes shall thereof arise; Preserve my tears, and thou ...
She's dead; and all which die To their first elements resolve; And we were mutual elements to us, And made ...
The line breaks and the guns go under, The lords and the lackeys ride the plain; I draw deep breaths ...
The day was wet, the rain fell souse Like jars of strawberry jam, a sound was heard in the ...
NOT in scorn do I reprove thee, Not in pride thy vows I waive, But, believe, I could not love ...
The last pose flickered, failed. The screen's dead white Glared in a sudden flooding of harsh light Stabbing the eyes; ...
Pelagius lived at Kardanoel And taught a doctrine there How, whether you went to heaven or to hell It was ...
O! had my Fate been join'd with thine, As once this pledge appear'd a token, These follies had not, then, ...
Eighty Lonely in his great age, Henry's old friend leaned on his burning cane while hÃs old friend was hymnéd ...
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