THE OCCULTATION OF ORION (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
I saw, as in a dream sublime, The balance in the hand of Time. O'er East and West its beam ...
I saw, as in a dream sublime, The balance in the hand of Time. O'er East and West its beam ...
In the market-place of Bruges stands the belfry old and brown; Thrice consumed and thrice rebuilded, still it watches o'er ...
Dear child! how radiant on thy mother's knee, With merry-making eyes and jocund smiles, Thou gazest at the painted tiles, ...
There is a fork in a branch of an ancient, enormous maple, one of a grove of such trees, where ...
I eat oatmeal for breakfast. I make it on the hot plate and put skimmed milk on it. I eat ...
to a friend No! those days are gone away And their hours are old and gray, And their minutes buried ...
Howe's Final version Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the ...
WITHIN a town where parity According to old form we see,-- That is to say, where Catholic And Protestant no ...
As the first trumpet blew, I saw hail and fire, mingled with blood too. It was cast to the ground, ...
Of all the opry-houses then obtaining in the West The one which Milton Tootle owned was, by all odds, the ...
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
I've known ere now an interfering branch Of alder catch my lifted ax behind me. But that was in the ...
WHEN I was young, we dwelt in a vale By a misty fen that rang all night, And thus it ...
My first job was when I was about 15. I had met a girl named Hope who became my best ...
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
It sounded as if the Streets were running And then -- the Streets stood still -- Eclipse -- was all ...
Like Rain it sounded till it curved And then I new 'twas Wind -- It walked as wet as any ...
It seldom snowed they said, perhaps they're right although seldom was never in that endless summer which tightened a fiery ...
A chieftain, to the Highlands bound, Cries, ``Boatman, do not tarry! And I'll give thee a silver pound To row ...
The ordeal's fatal trumpet sounded, And sad pale Adelgitha came, When forth a valiant champion bounded, And slew the slanderer ...
Notus in fratres animi paterni. Hor. Carm. lib.II.2. A bless?d lot hath he, who having passed His youth and early ...
The Vanishing They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
Bhaskar Roy Barman When the world itself looked exhausted, revolving round the sun; when a bumble-bee sounded tired of humming ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords. I once read something ...
I My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have ...
An imaginary composer.] I. Hist, but a word, fair and soft! Forth and be judged, Master Hugues! Answer the question ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
"Yes," I answered you last night; "No," this morning, Sir, I say. Colours seen by candlelight, Will not look the ...
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