A Tale of Starvation (Amy Lowell Poem)
There once was a man whom the gods didn't love, And a disagreeable man was he. He loathed his neighbours, ...
There once was a man whom the gods didn't love, And a disagreeable man was he. He loathed his neighbours, ...
(For My Mother) The halls that were loud with the merry tread of young and careless feet Are still with ...
Oh, glorious are the guarded heights Where guardian souls abide-- Self-exiled from our gross delights-- Above, beyond, outside: An ampler ...
1918 God rest you, peaceful gentlemen, let nothing you dismay, But--leave your sports a little while--the dead are borne this ...
1918 This is the State above the Law. The State exists for the State alone." [This is a gland at ...
For Sára Karig "You are so wise," the reindeer said, "you can bind the winds of the world in a ...
The piper coming from far away is you With a whitewash brush for a sporran Wobbling round you, a kitchen ...
WHEN Cupid with his dart, would hearts assail, The rampart most secure is not the VEIL; A husband better will ...
It was Christmas Day in the trenches In Spain in Penninsular War, And Sam Small were cleaning his musket A ...
No spring nor summer Beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnall face. Young beauties force our ...
If He were living -- dare I ask -- And how if He be dead -- And so around the ...
Our efforts are those of the unfortunate; our efforts are like those of the Trojans. Somewhat we succeed; somewhat we ...
A week before the Armistice, you died. They did not keep your heart like Livingstone's, then plant your bones near ...
Doors were left open in heaven again: drafts wheeze, clouds wrap their ripped pages around roofs and trees. Like wet ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
A MIDDLE-AGE INTERLUDE. ROSA MUNDI; SEU, FULCITE ME FLORIBUS. A CONCEIT OF MASTER GYSBRECHT, CANON-REGULAR OF SAID JODOCUS-BY-THE-BAR, YPRES CITY. ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
That second time they hunted me From hill to plain, from shore to sea, And Austria, hounding far and wide ...
Adieu to Belashanny! where I was bred and born; Go where I may, I'll think of you, as sure as ...
RecitativoWHEN lyart leaves bestrow the yird, Or wavering like the bauckie-bird, Bedim cauld Boreas' blast; When hailstanes drive wi' bitter ...
SOME books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn'd: Ev'n ministers they hae been ...
Half across the world from me Lie the lands I'll never see- I, whose longing lives and dies Where a ...
He dropped, -- more sullenly than wearily, Lay stupid like a cod, heavy like meat, And none of us could ...
'Twas in the year 1762 that France and Spain Resolved, allied together, to crush Britain; But the British Army sailed ...
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
In Arthur's house whileome was I When happily the time went by In midmost glory of his days. He held ...
". . . defeated, with great loss." Not we the conquered! Not to us the blame Of them that flee, ...
I was just turned twenty-one, And Henry Phipps, the Sunday-school superintendent, Made a speech in Bindle's Opera House. "The honor ...
Translated by Shorsha Sullivan (book includes DVD with audio performance directed by Piers Burton-Page, slide show of sculptures by Fritz ...
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