The Vanities Of Life (John Clare Poems)
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.--_Solomon_What are life's joys and gains? What pleasures crowd its ways,That man should take such pains To ...
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.--_Solomon_What are life's joys and gains? What pleasures crowd its ways,That man should take such pains To ...
Mildewed and gray the marble stairs Rise from their balustraded urns To where a chiseled satyr glares From a luxuriant bed of ferns; A ...
What Malvern is the day is, and its touchstone -Grey velvet, or moon-marked; rich, or bare as bone;One looks towards Malvern and is ...
What Malvern is the day is, and it's touchstoneGray velvet, or moonmarked; rich, or bare as bone;One looks towards Malvern ...
Within this earthen vessel are bowers and groves, and within it is the Creator:Within this vessel are the seven oceans ...
IThe sister Hours in circles linked,Daughters of men, of men the mates,Are gone on flow with the day that winked,With ...
THE PRELIBATION To the SACRIFICE.ARGUMENT. Spes alit occiduas qui Sublunaribus haeret; Rivales JESUS non in Amore sinit. Quid mihi non ...
Standing alone, a study in itself,How Shakespeare's volume glorifies my shelf!For thence his spirit forth on mine has shined,Like a ...
I Now, this, to my notion, is pleasant cheer, To lie all alone on a ragged heath, Where your nose ...
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity--SOLOMON.What are life's joys and gains?What pleasures crowd its ways,That man should take such painsTo ...
A TOAST to the Fools! Pierrot, Pantaloon, Harlequin, Clown, Merry-Andrew, Buffoon -- Touchstone and Triboulet -- all of the tribe. ...
Last night I rode with Touchstone on a busFrom Ludgate Hill to World's End. It was he!Despite the broadcloth and ...
(Canticles 2:1. The Lily of the Valleys)Am I Thy gold? Or purse, Lord, for Thy wealth;Whether in mine or mint ...
Centered on the cross The labyrinth changed a birch cross, placed within the rows drawing us in, a touchstone, a ...
Would Jesus torture, would he allow his disciples to torture would people acting as his friends, as children of God, ...
Define my weal, and tell the joys of Heav'n; Express my woes, and show the pains of Hell; Declare what ...
A man there came, whence none could tell, Bearing a Touchstone in his hand; And tested all things in the ...
THE KINGDOM OF MY HEART 1 The halcyon settled on the Aire of our days Kingfisher-blue it broke my heart ...
Yet one Song more! one high and solemn strain Ere PAEAN! on thy temple's ruined wall I hang the silent ...
Thought, I love thought. But not the juggling and twisting of already existent ideas I despise that self-important game. Thought ...
I. THE VOICE OF THE MAN IMPATIENT WITH VISIONS AND UTOPIAS We find your soft Utopias as white As new-cut ...
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