The Miseries of Man (Anne Killigrew Poem)
IN that so temperate Soil Arcadia nam'd, For fertile Pasturage by Poets fam'd; Stands a steep Hill, whose lofty jetting ...
IN that so temperate Soil Arcadia nam'd, For fertile Pasturage by Poets fam'd; Stands a steep Hill, whose lofty jetting ...
Here is a symbol in which Many high tragic thoughts Watch their own eyes. This gray rock, standing tall On ...
My prayers must meet a brazen heaven And fail and scatter all away. Unclean and seeming unforgiven My prayers I ...
With short, sharp violent lights made vivid, To the southward far as the sight can roam, Only the swirl of ...
In this time, this moment of reflection non-violent language should be lifted up all of us guilty none truly innocent ...
Turn, every step over commit each to the Lord everything we do everything we are In this is our success ...
Happy in your joy your success singing in my heart rejoicing when you shout praises on high Like candles lighting ...
Part of the puzzle the confusion of our spirits competition for success measured in our wealth the things, the possessions ...
When our hearts become proud our garners full of grain, when we are revered, known in the gate claiming we ...
This Holy Saturday trying, with mixed success the emptiness, the devastation To stand in their shoes to be of one ...
For some, a piece of paper a momentary achievement for her, a different moment, importance to the day. A wall, ...
NO city I to Rheims would e'er prefer: Of France the pride and honour I aver; The Holy Ampoule and ...
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
WHEN William went from home (a trader styled): Six months his better half he left with child, A simple, comely, ...
HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find, It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind: Brown bread as well as white must ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
Gus is the Cat at the Theatre Door. His name, as I ought to have told you before, Is really ...
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant -- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The ...
To glibly say that Joe was sort of odd quite missed the point. Peculiar in many ways and kind of ...
I cannot let the moment pass without a weary greeting, or retard the recent past where shadows still are fleeting, ...
It was a half-life that seemed like a genuine world wielding hard symbolism over those who ruled it; we lived ...
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
"MY First - but don't suppose," he said, "I'm setting you a riddle - Is - if your Victim be ...
The opposite seeks the opposite and the drop of black grows within white until turning white into black and conversely ...
O thou Most High who rulest all And hear'st the prayers of thine, O hearken, Lord, unto my suit And ...
SHORTLY AFTER THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING IN EUROPE. Let us begin and carry up this corpse, Singing together. Leave we ...
Mysterious death! who in a single hour Life's gold can so refine And by thy art divine Change mortal weakness ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
THOUGH fickle Fortune has deceived me, She pormis'd fair and perform'd but ill; Of mistress, friends, and wealth bereav'd me, ...
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