Milton (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I Lover of beauty, walking on the height Of pure philosophy and tranquil song; Born to behold the visions that ...
I Lover of beauty, walking on the height Of pure philosophy and tranquil song; Born to behold the visions that ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
"Lights out" along the land, "Lights out" upon the sea. The night must put her hiding hand O'er peaceful towns ...
The land was broken in despair, The princes quarrelled in the dark, When clear and tranquil, through the troubled air ...
I Thou who hast made thy dwelling fair With flowers beneath, above with starry lights, And set thine altars everywhere,-- ...
Went up a year this evening! I recollect it well! Amid no bells nor bravoes The bystanders will tell! Cheerful ...
Through those old Grounds of memory, The sauntering alone Is a divine intemperance A prudent man would shun. Of liquors ...
To know just how He suffered -- would be dear -- To know if any Human eyes were near To ...
If I should die, And you should live -- And time should gurgle on -- And morn should beam -- ...
What is it with Hezbollah representing barely 15% of the Lebanese Parliament living outside the government immersed in an undeclared ...
I The rutted roads are all like iron; skies Are keen and brilliant; only the oak-leaves cling In the bare ...
Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has ...
Friend of the Wise ! and Teacher of the Good ! Into my heart have I received that Lay More ...
My pensive SARA ! thy soft cheek reclined Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is To sit beside ...
Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, With the old Moon in her arms ; And I fear, I ...
(Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire) My pensive Sara! thy soft cheek reclined Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is ...
AS slow I climb the cliff's ascending side, Much musing on the track of terror past When o'er the dark ...
O race that Cæsar knew, That won stern Roman praise, What land not envies you The laurel of these days? ...
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
NOT in scorn do I reprove thee, Not in pride thy vows I waive, But, believe, I could not love ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
' SISTER, you've sat there all the day, Come to the hearth awhile; The wind so wildly sweeps away, The ...
BUT two miles more, and then we rest ! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the ...
ARRANGING long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we've set ourselves ! How ...
THE linnet in the rocky dells, The moor-lark in the air, The bee among the heather bells That hide my ...
How beautiful the earth is still, To thee - how full of happiness! How little fraught with real ill, Or ...
The linnet in the rocky dells, The moor - lark in the air, The bee among the heather - bells ...
Ah! why, because the dazzling sun Restored our Earth to joy, Have you departed, every one, And left a desert ...
WORSEWICK Worsewick Hot Springs was nothing fancy. Somebody put some boards across the creek. That was it. The boards dammed ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
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