Ingrateful Beauty Threatened (Thomas Carew Poem)
Know Celia, since thou art so proud, 'Twas I that gave thee thy renown; Thou hadst, in the forgotten crowd ...
Know Celia, since thou art so proud, 'Twas I that gave thee thy renown; Thou hadst, in the forgotten crowd ...
Under what withering leprous light The very grass as hair is grey, Grass in the cracks of the paven courts ...
"Old things need not be therefore true," O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought ...
It is not sweet content, be sure, That moves the nobler Muse to song, Yet when could truth come whole ...
(Ezekiel, xxxvi. 25-28) The Lord proclaims His grace abroad! "Behold, I change your hearts of stone; Each shall renounce his ...
Ah! wherefore should my weeping maid suppress Those gentle signs of undissembled woe? When from soft love proceeds the deep ...
The mighty sound of forests murmuring In answer to the dread command; The stars that shudder when their king extends ...
To Kathleen- Nor I can give, nor you can take; endures The simple truth of me that is yours. Is ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
The mighty sound of forests murmuring In answer to the dread command; The stars that shudder when their king extends ...
To Kathleen- Nor I can give, nor you can take; endures The simple truth of me that is yours. Is ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
'Tis true, Idoloclastes Satyrane ! (So call him, for so mingling blame with praise, And smiles with anxious looks, his ...
I There was an ancient City, stricken down With a strange frenzy, and for many a day They paced from ...
Old Elm that murmured in our chimney top The sweetest anthem autumn ever made And into mellow whispering calms would ...
If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move ...
The bells of waiting Advent ring, The Tortoise stove is lit again And lamp-oil light across the night Has caught ...
Sence fair Jessica hez left us Seems ez ef she hed bereft us, When she went, o' half o' livin'; ...
Music I love - but never strain Could kindle raptures so divine, So grief assuage, so conquer pain, And rouse ...
Though bleak these woods and damp the ground With fallen leaves so thickly strewn, And cold the wind that wanders ...
So sweet love seemed that April morn, When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not ...
On waters, spread without end, Dressed with the sunset so purple, It sings and prophesies for land, Unable to lift ...
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
In the dungeon-crypts, idly did I stray, Reckless of the lives wasting there away; "Draw the ponderous bars! open, Warder ...
Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom and desolate despair; A ...
I am the only being whose doom No tongue would ask no eye would mourn I never caused a thought ...
They say there's a high windless world and strange, Out of the wash of days and temporal tide, Where Faith ...
Her Mother's Epitaph Here lies A worthy matron of unspotted life, A loving mother and obedient wife, A friendly neighbor, ...
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