Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
A tale that the poet Rückert told To German children, in days of old; Disguised in a random, rollicking rhyme ...
As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do ...
Too cold is this To warm with Sun -- Too stiff to bended be, To joint this Agate were a ...
That odd old man is dead a year -- We miss his stated Hat. 'Twas such an evening bright and ...
I rose -- because He sank -- I thought it would be opposite -- But when his power dropped -- ...
I know that He exists. Somewhere -- in Silence -- He has hid his rare life From our gross eyes. ...
After great pain, a formal feeling comes -- The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs -- The stiff Heart questions was ...
I Before I grew this spacesuit I was trim. I saw it in a doctor's report: "The subject is an ...
Under what withering leprous light The very grass as hair is grey, Grass in the cracks of the paven courts ...
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
There are certain things -a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three - That I hate, but ...
There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three-- That I hate, but the ...
I watched the winter light die from the bridge, the sky a sinking empire's battleship, ice floes' jagged edges clink ...
Holding with shaking hands a letter from some Official - high up he says in the Ministry, I note that ...
To be a great musician you must be a man of moods, You have to be, to understand sonatas and ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee, With promise of strength and manhood full and fair! Though cold ...
A list of some observation. In a corner, it's warm. A glance leaves an imprint on anything it's dwelt on. ...
High stretched upon the swinging yard, I gather in the sheet; But it is hard And stiff, and one cries ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
Come, let us tell the weeds in ditches How we are poor, who once had riches, And lie out in ...
I had come to the house, in a cave of trees, Facing a sheer sky. Everything moved, -- a bell ...
THE HUNCHBACK TROUT The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was ...
WORSEWICK Worsewick Hot Springs was nothing fancy. Somebody put some boards across the creek. That was it. The boards dammed ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
In a motion of night they massed nearer my post. I hummed a short blues. When the stars went out ...
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