Sun and Shadow (Oliver Wendell Holmes Poem)
As I look from the isle, o'er its billows of green, To the billows of foam-crested blue, Yon bark, that ...
As I look from the isle, o'er its billows of green, To the billows of foam-crested blue, Yon bark, that ...
Glory be to God for dappled things- For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple ...
Blessings in abundance come To the bride and to her groom ; May the bed and this short night Know ...
Glory be to God for dappled things- For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple ...
[Goethe describes this much-admired Poem, which he wrote in honour of his love Lily, as being "designed to change his ...
WEAVE the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race. Give ample room, and verge enough The characters ...
Pindaric Ode "Ruin seize thee, ruthless King! Confusion on thy banners wait! Tho' fanned by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock ...
Lo! where the rosy-bosomed Hours, Fair Venus' train, appear, Disclose the long-expecting flowers, And wake the purple year! The Attic ...
When you're up against a trouble, Meet it squarely, face to face; Lift your chin and set your shoulders, Plant ...
Yesterday I drew myself from the noisome throngs and proceeded into the field until I reached a knoll upon which ...
Think about these people the ones they care for the stories they are telling their crying out Not as strangers ...
The seeds of faith planted in their hearts the smaller lights growing growing ever in You We are the ones ...
The white of the dusting of snow lingers in the shadows, on the fallen leaves, the cooler spots in the ...
WEEP no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that 's gone: Violets pluck'd, the sweetest rain Makes ...
NO easy matter 'tis to hold, Against its owner's will, the fleece Who troubled by the itching smart Of Cupid's ...
How far is it to peace, the piper sighed, The solitary, sweating as he paused. Asphalt the noon; the ravens, ...
I Before I grew this spacesuit I was trim. I saw it in a doctor's report: "The subject is an ...
The poet in his lone yet genial hour Gives to his eyes a magnifying power : Or rather he emancipates ...
Like a lone Arab, old and blind, Some caravan had left behind, Who sits beside a ruin'd well, Where the ...
No cloud, no relique of the sunken day Distinguishes the West, no long thin slip Of sullen light, no obscure ...
Verse, a Breeze 'mid blossoms straying, Where HOPE clung feeding, like a bee-- Both were mine ! Life went a-maying ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
"DON'T they consult the 'Victims,' though?" I said. "They should, by rights, Give them a chance - because, you know, ...
A sinner was old Captain Dan; His wives guv him no rest: He had one wife to East Skiddaw And ...
How brightly glistening in the sun The woodland ivy plays! While yonder beeches from their barks Reflect his silver rays. ...
Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding, Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West, That fearest nor sea ...
Silent is the house: all are laid asleep: One alone looks out o'er the snow-wreaths deep, Watching every cloud, dreading ...
Thou ill-form'd offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side remain, Till snatcht from thence by ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
There's a palace in Florence, the world knows well, And a statue watches it from the square, And this story ...
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