To Be Amused (Henry Lawson Poem)
You ask me to be gay and glad While lurid clouds of danger loom, And vain and bad and gambling ...
You ask me to be gay and glad While lurid clouds of danger loom, And vain and bad and gambling ...
1903 Before a midnight breaks in storm, Or herded sea in wrath, Ye know what wavering gusts inform The greater ...
Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home: At a touch sweet Pleasure melteth, Like to bubbles when ...
ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book ...
Since, Lord, to thee A narrow way and little gate Is all the passage, on my infancy Thou didst lay ...
I Dear Lizbie Browne, Where are you now? In sun, in rain? - Or is your brow Past joy, past ...
Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on ...
[Goethe began to write an opera called Lowenstuhl, founded upon the old tradition which forms the subject of this Ballad, ...
Down in the mud I lay, Tired out by my long day Of five damned days and nights, Five sleepless ...
In the early morning dewlight the stealth of her design the intricate lattice revealed. Ribbons concentric ovals rays, lines radiating ...
Slowing our steps measured steps, of remembrance pilgrims, yoking our lives with Christ and with the first disciples journeying with ...
A frightened king tried stealth and then wrath to stop the coming the birthing of the Messiah, the savior, the ...
Deliverers of the people each both under a death threat a dream and a basket into the land of Egypt ...
An anonymous reciprocal grain offering, giving in love for the brother, who each believed more deserving, more worthy for the ...
He seemed so complacent in the hot August sun on the barrier islands not moving at all basking in the ...
One year since You opened your heart to me. To share deep feelings To take a chance. Love, lust, fear ...
THE change of food enjoyment is to man; In this, t'include the woman is my plan. I cannot guess why ...
NO better Dog e'er kept his Master's Door Than honest Snarl, who spar'd nor Rich nor Poor; But gave the ...
There comes a warning like a spy A shorter breath of Day A stealing that is not a stealth And ...
A Word made Flesh is seldom And tremblingly partook Nor then perhaps reported But have I not mistook Each one ...
I know some lonely Houses off the Road A Robber'd like the look of -- Wooden barred, And Windows hanging ...
Bliss is the plaything of the child -- The secret of the man The sacred stealth of Boy and Girl ...
Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
I My love, this is the bitterest, that thou Who art all truth and who dost love me now As ...
DEAR SMITH, the slee'st, pawkie thief, That e'er attempted stealth or rief! Ye surely hae some warlock-brief Owre human hearts; ...
Over the darkened city, the city of towers, The city of a thousand gates, Over the gleaming terraced roofs, the ...
MY lord, I know your noble ear Woe ne'er assails in vain; Embolden'd thus, I beg you'll hear Your humble ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
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