Down, Wanton, Down! (Robert Graves Poem)
Down, wanton, down! Have you no shame That at the whisper of Love's name, Or Beauty's, presto! up you raise ...
Down, wanton, down! Have you no shame That at the whisper of Love's name, Or Beauty's, presto! up you raise ...
When I remark her golden hair Swoon on her glorious shoulders, I marvel not that sight so rare Doth ravish ...
Though skilled in Latin and in Greek, And earning fifty cents a week, Such knowledge, and the income, too, Should ...
A livid sky on London And like the iron steeds that rear A shock of engines halted And I knew ...
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget; For we are the people of England, that ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
WHEN Nature her great master-piece design'd, And fram'd her last, best work, the human mind, Her eye intent on all ...
YE Irish lords, ye knights an' squires, Wha represent our brughs an' shires, An' doucely manage our affairs In parliament, ...
I am like, They tell me, my dear father. Broader brows Howbeit, upon a slenderer undergrowth Of delicate ...
I am weary of lying within the chase When the knights are meeting in market-place. Nay, go not thou to ...
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap Left by the Holy Quest; and as he sat In hall ...
I I see the boys of summer in their ruin Lay the gold tithings barren, Setting no store by harvest, ...
Why run the crowd? What means the throng That rushes fast the streets along? Can Rhodes a prey to flames, ...
All folks who pretend to religion and grace, Allow there's a HELL, but dispute of the place: But, if HELL ...
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From nature, I believe 'em true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
LORDS, knights, and squires, the numerous band That wear the fair Miss Mary's fetters, Were summoned by her high command ...
Come with me, and we will blow Lots of bubbles, as we go; Bubbles bright as ever Hope Drew from ...
Dear Goddess of Corn, whom the ancients we know, (Among other odd whims of those comical bodies,) Adorn'd with somniferous ...
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
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