The Progress Of Learning (John Denham Poems)
PREFACE.My early mistress, now my ancient Muse,That strong Circaean liquor cease t'infuse,Wherewith thou didst intoxicate my youth,Now stoop with disenchanted ...
PREFACE.My early mistress, now my ancient Muse,That strong Circaean liquor cease t'infuse,Wherewith thou didst intoxicate my youth,Now stoop with disenchanted ...
The day of tumult, strife, defeat, was o'er;Worn out with toil, and noise, and scorn, and spleen,I slumbered, and in ...
Gaul whose keel in far, dim ages ploughed wan widths of polar sea-Gray old sailor of Massilia, who hath woven ...
THE sword is re-sheathed in its scabbard,The rifle hangs safe on the wall;No longer we quail at the hungryHot rush ...
There was a King of ThuleWhom a Witch-wife stole at birth;In a country known but newly,All under the dumb, huge ...
IN Thule lived a monarch,Still faithful to the grave,To whom his dying mistressA golden goblet gave.Beyond all price he deem'd ...
Thule, the period of cosmography,Doth vaunt of Hecla, whose sulphureous fireDoth melt the frozen clime and thaw the sky;Trinacrian Etna's ...
I 'T is the middle of night on the Greenfield farm And the creatures are huddled to keep them from ...
Hail to thee, mountain beloved, with thy glittering purple-dyed summit! Hail to thee also, fair sun, looking so lovingly ...
Svend Vonved sits in his lonely bower;He strikes his harp with a hand of power;His harp return'd a responsive din;Then ...
"UNDER the slanting light of the yellow sun of October, A ""gang of Dagos"" were working close by the side ...
The tides roll white and pale On a shingly, stormy strand,And the seabirds sweep and wailIn the swing of ...
Where star-cold and the dread of spacein icy silence bind the mainI feel but vastness on my face,I sit, a ...
Where the Northern Ocean in vast whirlsBoils round the naked melancholy islesOf furthest Thule, and the Atlantic surgePours in among ...
With favoring winds, o'er sunlit seas, We sailed for the Hesperides, The land where golden apples grow; But that, ah! ...
(* This ballad is also introduced in Faust, where it is sung by Margaret.) IN Thule lived a monarch, Still ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
GIFT from the cold and silent Past! A relic to the present cast, Left on the ever-changing strand Of shifting ...
Hail to thee, mountain beloved, with thy glittering purple-dyed summit! Hail to thee also, fair sun, looking so lovingly on! ...
By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne ...
The Youth speaks: -: "Why do you seek the sun In your bubble-crown ascending? Your chariot ...
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