The Roman Road (Thomas Hardy Poem)
The Roman Road runs straight and bare As the pale parting-line in hair Across the heath. And thoughtful men Contrast ...
The Roman Road runs straight and bare As the pale parting-line in hair Across the heath. And thoughtful men Contrast ...
The strong shore is my beloved And I am his sweetheart. We are at last united by love, and Then ...
I What new element before us unborn in nature? Is there a new thing under the Sun? At last inquisitive ...
We must be ever thoughtful consequences of what we say lifting up those on our way Supportive words affirming others ...
Like gloved hands at the summer cotillion so were the petals of the sun touching her face, oh so delicately, ...
When I saw him, it made me think of him the hat and coat I had seen, the hat I ...
A cup of Joe A salad on the go A smile to start my day Banter to lighten my way ...
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play, Which oft resumes its fascinating sway; Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or ...
What art thou, SPLEEN, which ev'ry thing dost ape? Thou Proteus to abus'd Mankind, Who never yet thy real Cause ...
1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And ...
When it was autumn in Eden and chestnuts held golden leaves against dimming light , Eve touched her toes on ...
You weren't well or really ill yet either; just a little tired, your handsomeness tinged by grief or anticipation, which ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
Some, too fragile for winter winds The thoughtful grave encloses -- Tenderly tucking them in from frost Before their feet ...
Again -- his voice is at the door -- I feel the old Degree -- I hear him ask the ...
For months on end the pumpkins lay at peace, their parent vines had all but browned and died although a ...
In Memory of John Keats By the Aurelian Wall, Where the long shadows of the centuries fall From Caius Cestius' ...
"Alexander son of Philip, and the Greeks except the Lacedaemonians--" We can very well imagine that they were utterly indifferent ...
'Tis true, Idoloclastes Satyrane ! (So call him, for so mingling blame with praise, And smiles with anxious looks, his ...
The Bellman's Speech The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies-- Such a carriage, such ease and such grace! ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
O NORTH! as thy romantic vales I leave, And bid farewell to each retiring hill, Where thoughtful fancy seems to ...
WE take from life one little share, And say that this shall be A space, redeemed from toil and care, ...
NOT in scorn do I reprove thee, Not in pride thy vows I waive, But, believe, I could not love ...
How beautiful the earth is still, To thee - how full of happiness! How little fraught with real ill, Or ...
Well hast thou spoken, and yet, not taught A feeling strange or new; Thou hast but roused a latent thought, ...
Ay! gloriously thou standest there, Beautiful, boundless firmament! That swelling wide o'er earth and air, And round the horizon bent, ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Turning it over, considering, like a madman Henry put forth a book. No harm resulted from this. Neither the menstruating ...
Lying in me, as though it were a white Stone in the depths of a well, is one Memory that ...
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