“I Have Lived With Shades” (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I I have lived with shades so long, And talked to them so oft, Since forth from cot and croft ...
I I have lived with shades so long, And talked to them so oft, Since forth from cot and croft ...
[First published in Schiller's Horen, in connection with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great ...
I What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there a new thing under the Sun? At last inquisitive ...
Where wail the waters in their flaw A spectre wanders to and fro, And evermore that ghostly shore Bemoans the ...
(EGYPTIAN FOLK-SONG) Grim is the face that looks into the night Over the stretch of sands; A sullen rock in ...
ONCE on the kind of day called "weather breeder," When the heat slowly hazes and the sun By its own ...
On young Albert Ramsbottom's birthday His parents asked what he'd like most; He said to see t' Tower of London ...
I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
One need not be a Chamber -- to be Haunted -- One need not be a House -- The Brain ...
When I hoped I feared -- Since I hoped I dared Everywhere alone As a Church remain -- Spectre cannot ...
We do not know the time we lose -- The awful moment is And takes its fundamental place Among the ...
Facts by our side are never sudden Until they look around And then they scare us like a spectre Protruding ...
Hark ! from the battlements of yonder tower The solemn bell has tolled the midnight hour ! Roused from drear ...
When the chill of earth black-breasted is uplifted at the glance Of the red sun million-crested, and the forest blossoms ...
When the chill of earth black-breasted is uplifted at the glance Of the red sun million-crested, and the forest blossoms ...
"AND did you really walk," said I, "On such a wretched night? I always fancied Ghosts could fly - If ...
"OH, when I was a little Ghost, A merry time had we! Each seated on his favourite post, We chumped ...
ONE winter night, at half-past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine, ...
I There was an ancient City, stricken down With a strange frenzy, and for many a day They paced from ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
(Translated from the French by Edouard Rodti) My wife with the hair of a wood fire With the thoughts of ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
I Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep ...
O SWARMING city, city full of dreams, Where in a full day the spectre walks and speaks; Mighty colossus, in ...
HOW daur ye ca' me "Howlet-face"? Ye blear-e'ed, withered spectre! Ye only spied the keekin-glass, An' there ye saw your ...
I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. ...
I see the Four-fold Man, The Humanity in deadly sleep And its fallen Emanation, the Spectre and its cruel Shadow. ...
My spectre around me night and day Like a wild beast guards my way. My emanation far within Weeps incessantly ...
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