The World (George Herbert Poem)
Love built a stately house, where Fortune came, And spinning fancies, she was heard to say That her fine cobwebs ...
Love built a stately house, where Fortune came, And spinning fancies, she was heard to say That her fine cobwebs ...
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
A young man of strong body, weakened by hunger, sat on the walker's portion of the street stretching his hand ...
In nineteen hundred forty-nine China was won by Mao Tse-tung Chiang Kai-shek's army ran away They were waiting there in ...
A hope, our faith in the future after the storms the trials of our lives Christ, the spirit, God with ...
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
Blest be the Man! his Memory at least, Who found the Art, thus to unfold his Breast, And taught succeeding ...
En l'an trentiesme do mon aage Que toutes mes hontes j'ay beues... PIPIT sate upright in her chair Some distance ...
Obscurest night involv'd the sky, Th' Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
WHEN chill November's surly blast Made fields and forests bare, One ev'ning, as I wander'd forth Along the banks of ...
The Farmer's Goose, who in the Stubble, Has fed without Restraint, or Trouble; Grown fat with Corn and Sitting still, ...
Our great work, the Otia Merseiana, Edited by learned Mister Sampson, And supported by Professor Woodward, Is financed by numerous ...
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the ...
'Twas in the year of 1874, and on New Year's Day, The British Army landed at Elmina without dismay, And ...
'Twas in the year of 1849, and on the 20th of February, Lord Gough met and attacked Shere Sing right ...
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken ...
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
Mr Kessler, you know, was in the army, And he drew six dollars a month as a pension, And stood ...
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