Epistle To Fabio (Francisco de Rioja Poems)
Fabio ! the courtier's hopes are chains that windWith fatal strength around the ambitious mind; And he who breaks or ...
Fabio ! the courtier's hopes are chains that windWith fatal strength around the ambitious mind; And he who breaks or ...
'Twas in the sultry summer-time, as war's red records show, When patriot armies rose to meet a fratricidal foe;When from ...
A Threnody for Robert Louis StevensonCOLD, the dull cold! What ails the sun,And takes the heart out of the day?What ...
A MOMENT since, he stood unmoved--alone; Courage and thought on his resolvēd brow; But hope is quivering in the broken ...
Out of that high pavilionWhere the sick, wind-harassed sunIn the whiteness of the dayGhostly shone and stole away--Parched with the ...
GODS of the desert! you are they We shun from childhood's earliest breath;Our passing joys are but your prey; ...
The tented field wore a wrinkled frown,And the emptied church from the hill looked downOn the emptied road and the ...
Sleep 'midst thy banners furl'd!Yes! thou art there, upon thy buckler lying,With the soft wind unfelt around thee sighing,Thou chief ...
O, sweet slight friendWho frolics freeO'er cactus plainOr sandy lee, No one can lonelyLong remainWhile hearkening toThy blithe refrain When ...
There's not a stately hall,There's not a cottage fair,That proudly stands on Southern soil,Or softly nestles there,But in its peaceful ...
The camp has had its day of song;The sword, the bayonet, the plumeHave crowded out of rhyme too longThe plough, ...
Children of the glorious dead,Who for freedom fought and bled,With her banner o'er you spread,On to victory.Not for stern ambition's ...
Horatio, of ideal courage vain,Was flourishing in air his father's cane,And, as the fumes of valour swelled his pate,Now thought ...
WITH half-hearted levies of frost that make foray, retire, and refrain -- Ambiguous bugles that blow and that falter to ...
Not his the lifelong loud renown, The head with weight of years grown gray: But his a gallant ...
HIS Soul fared forth (as from the deep home-groveThe father-songster plies the hour-long quest),To feed his soul-brood hungering in the ...
I The roaring of Te Whaiau intake weir intrudes as sleep eludes again to soar across the lake on white-tipped, ...
When first the fiery-mantled sun His heavenly race begun to run; Round the earth and ocean blue, His children four ...
WHEN wild war's deadly blast was blawn, And gentle peace returning, Wi' mony a sweet babe fatherless, And mony a ...
This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain: "Send not your foolish and feeble; send ...
All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood; I turned and looked another ...
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