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 ...
Two good friends had Hiawatha, Singled out from all the others, Bound to him in closest union, And to whom ...
"Honor be to Mudjekeewis!" Cried the warriors, cried the old men, When he came in triumph homeward With the sacred ...
SO the renowned Ithacensian Queen In Tears for her Telemachus was seen, When leaving Home, he did attempt the Ire ...
The eldest son bestrides him, And the pretty daughter rides him, And I meet him oft o' mornings on the ...
The fear was on the cattle, for the gale was on the sea, An' the pens broke up on the ...
FOLLOW a shadow, it still flies you; Seem to fly it, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies ...
Follow a shadow, it still flies you; Seem to fly it, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies ...
It lies before me there, and my own breath Stirs its thin outer threads, as though beside The living head ...
Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred ...
To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, ...
And now it was evening. And Almitra the seeress said, "Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit ...
And an orator said, "Speak to us of Freedom." And he answered: At the city gate and by your fireside ...
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
`You know Orion always comes up sideways. Throwing a leg up over our fence of mountains, And rising on his ...
My first well Day -- since many ill -- I asked to go abroad, And take the Sunshine in my ...
He was weak, and I was strong -- then -- So He let me lead him in -- I was ...
Recite the loves of Narva and Mored The priest of Chalma's triple idol said. High from the ground the youthful ...
When midnight comes a host of dogs and men Go out and track the badger to his den, And put ...
In the licorice fields at Pontefract My love and I did meet And many a burdened licorice bush Was blooming ...
Lough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean's wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever ...
The evening passes fast away, 'Tis almost time to rest; What thoughts has left the vanished day, What feelings, in ...
WORSEWICK Worsewick Hot Springs was nothing fancy. Somebody put some boards across the creek. That was it. The boards dammed ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
Abandon the past Throw away the baggage Suffer no more. avast(stop now) Breakaway from the chains and shackles Which from ...
Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill; Go, shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes! No longer leave thy ...
HAIL, Poesie! thou Nymph reserv'd! In chase o' thee, what crowds hae swerv'd Frae common sense, or sunk enerv'd 'Mang ...
I The face, which, duly as the sun, Rose up for me with life begun, To mark all bright hours ...
Which is the weakest thing of all Mine heart can ponder? The sun, a little cloud can pall With darkness ...
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