Celebrating King Wan (Confucius Poems)
The royal Wan now rests on high, Enshrined in brightness of the sky. Chow as a state had long been ...
The royal Wan now rests on high, Enshrined in brightness of the sky. Chow as a state had long been ...
The landscape now reveals a change;A stair--that twin?d elm-boughs holdEnclosed 'mid hedges mystic, strange--Inaugurates a green and goldVision of gardens, ...
THE slender moon and one pale star, A rose leaf and a silver beeFrom some god's garden blown afar, Go ...
(_A Woman Speaks_) You know that rock on a rocky coast, Where the moon came up, a ...
Love sleeps! O do not strive to break His slumbers, he too soon will wake. But now all tranquilly he ...
Think of me, dearest! when the Western star Sheds o'er the soft blue heav'n its lovely light;For know, that ...
My love is the flame of an unfading autumn,It is the flare of unconsuming leavesIn an ecstasy of halcyonian space ...
Thou poet-painter, preacher of great truth,Far more suggestive thine than written tomeLo, we return with thee to that vast dome,Dim ...
In the deep cloister of the night, a nun, My gentle Love, thou walk'st; and from thy soul All traces ...
here's my snowy crown time's tinted decrepitudethere's the frost in the courtyard ...
Dank fens of cedar, hemlock-branches gray With tress and trail of mosses wringing-wet; Beds of the black pitch-pine in dead ...
Even now the fragrant darkness of her hair Had brushed my cheek; and once, in passing by, Her hand upon ...
412I read my sentence-steadily-Reviewed it with my eyes,To see that I made no mistakeIn its extremest clause-The Date, and manner, ...
AN INDIAN LEGEND. (MAHADEVA is one of the numerous ...
I read my sentence -- steadily -- Reviewed it with my eyes, To see that I made no mistake In ...
"O day! he cannot die When thou so fair art shining! O Sun, in such a glorious sky, So tranquilly ...
A languid atmosphere, a lazy breeze, With labored respiration, moves the wheat From distant reaches, till the golden seas Break ...
Here in the Autumn of my days My life is mellowed in a haze. Unpleasant sights are none to clear, ...
I love to watch my seven cows In meads of buttercups abrowse, With guilded knees; But even more I love ...
Because I have ten thousand pounds I sit upon my stern, And leave my living tranquilly for other folks to ...
Frosty-white and cold it lies Underneath the fretful skies; Snowflakes flutter where the red Banners of the poppies spread, And ...
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