Two idylls from bion the smyrnean (Eugene Field Poem)
I Once a fowler, young and artless, To the quiet greenwood came; Full of skill was he and heartless In ...
I Once a fowler, young and artless, To the quiet greenwood came; Full of skill was he and heartless In ...
A tortuous double iron track; a station here, a station there; A locomotive, tender, tanks; a coach with stiff reclining ...
What perfumed, posie-dizened sirrah, With smiles for diet, Clasps you, O fair but faithless Pyrrha, On the quiet? For whom ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled): Six months his better half he left with child, A simple, comely, ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
'A letter from my love to-day! Oh, unexpected, dear appeal!' She struck a happy tear away, And broke the crimson ...
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove, Of golden sand, and crystal ...
Risk is the Hair that holds the Tun Seductive in the Air -- That Tun is hollow -- but the ...
At dawn I dreamed of wispy clouds, I had the time to wield and watched the regimented lines of cirrus ...
I Before I grew this spacesuit I was trim. I saw it in a doctor's report: "The subject is an ...
They haven't got no noses, The fallen sons of Eve; Even the smell of roses Is not what they supposes; ...
Oh how I love Thy holy Word, Thy gracious covenant, O Lord! It guides me in the peaceful way; I ...
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
Mother of Light, and the Gods! Mother of Music, awake! Silence and speech are at odds; Heaven and Hell are ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
Thrill with lissome lust of the light, O man ! My man ! Come careering out of the night Of ...
Pale as the night that pales In the dawn's pearl-pure pavillion, I wait for thee, ...
Mother of Light, and the Gods! Mother of Music, awake! Silence and speech are at odds; Heaven and Hell are ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
Thrill with lissome lust of the light, O man ! My man ! Come careering out of the night Of ...
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