The Kalevala – Rune XXXIII (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
KULLERVO AND THE CHEAT-CAKE.Thereupon the lad, Kullervo,Laid his luncheon in his basket,Drove the herd to mountain-pastures,O'er the hills and through ...
KULLERVO AND THE CHEAT-CAKE.Thereupon the lad, Kullervo,Laid his luncheon in his basket,Drove the herd to mountain-pastures,O'er the hills and through ...
ll. 684-703) Long she pled, and urged him all the day to thatdark deed, to disobey their Lord's command. Close ...
Fit winding-sheet for thee Was the upheaving eternal sea,Fit dirge the tempest's slave-alarming roll ...
(Melbourne)I CAME to buy a book. It was a shopDown in a narrow quiet street, and hereThey kept, I knew, ...
Virtue may unlock hell, or evenA sin turn in the wards of Heaven,(As ethics of the text-book go),So little men ...
Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands,And of armed men the hum;Lo! a nation's hosts have gatheredRound the quick alarming ...
Because our talk was of the cloud-controlAnd moon-track of the journeying face of Fate,Her tremulous kisses faltered at love's gateAnd ...
Look, if eternally a fair rose grew,And if therefrom suns near yet not intenseWon out a purple-flam?d opulence,Impassioning the paleness ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
"OLD Norbert with the flat blue cap-- A German said to be-- Why let your pipe die on your lap, ...
'Whenever I plunge my arm, like this, In a basin of water, I never miss The sweet sharp sense of ...
Even the bravest that are slain Shall not dissemble their surprise On waking to find valor reign, Even as on ...
Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both. HERE I am, ...
As if some little Arctic flower Upon the polar hem -- Went wandering down the Latitudes Until it puzzled came ...
Having begun in thought there in that factual embodied wonder what was lost in the emptied lovers patience and mind ...
'Twas at that hour of beauty when the setting sun squandereth his cloudy bed with rosy hues, to flood his ...
I have a fire for you in my mouth, but I have a hundred seals on my tongue. The flames ...
In Arthur's house whileome was I When happily the time went by In midmost glory of his days. He held ...
It is the longest night in all the year, Near on the day when the Lord Christ was born; Six ...
The ArgumentA certain man having landed on an island in the Greek sea, found there a beautifuldamsel, whom he would ...
I A dream of interlinking hands, of feet Tireless to spin the unseen, fairy woof Of the entangling waltz. Bright ...
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