Ode To Happiness (James Russell Lowell Poems)
Spirit, that rarely comest now And only to contrast my gloom, Like rainbow-feathered birds that bloomA moment on some autumn boughThat, with ...
Spirit, that rarely comest now And only to contrast my gloom, Like rainbow-feathered birds that bloomA moment on some autumn boughThat, with ...
Christ God who savest man, save mostOf men Count Gismond who saved me!Count Gauthier, when he chose his post,Chose time ...
The sunset on Judah's high places grew pale, And purple tints shadowed the gorge and the vale, While Venus in beauty, with ...
"Look up!" cried the seaman, with nerves like steel, As skyward his glance he cast,And beheld his own son grow giddy, ...
"I'M growing old, I've sixty years;I've labored all my life in vain:In all that time of hopes and fearsI've failed ...
How may I know truth? Oh my beloved,I would answer thee. Truth is companionable,She is never a lady who sighs ...
Ah! sweet is the moonbeam that sleeps on yon fountain,And sweet the mild rush of the soft-sighing breeze,And sweet is ...
When the creation was new and all the stars shone in their firstsplendor, the gods held their assembly in the ...
Love is an odour from the heavenly bowers Which stirs our senses tenderly, and brings Dreams which are shadows of diviner things,Beyond ...
No Spring is there who suffers notThe lightning and the storm.No garden spot which hath not trembled'Neath the wind and ...
She gave me hopeshe gave me love,with bounty unalloyed.But what she had of faith,alas,she gave to Freud. (Piet Hein)
No not to-night, dear child; I cannot go; I'm busy, tired; they knew I should not come; you do not ...
1.I TO myself have neither power nor worth,Patience nor love, nor anything right good;My soul is a poor land, plenteous ...
Eating, drinking, smoking, laughter,Reverly and wild to-do -They shake the inn from floor to rafterWith huzzahing and halloo.There Twardowski heads ...
NOT for a rapture unalloyed I ask.Not for a recompense for all I miss.A banquet of the gods in heavenly ...
To Ernest Brace "And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard ...
Christ God who savest man, save most Of men Count Gismond who saved me! Count Gauthier, when he chose his ...
Mist clogs the sunshine. Smoky dwarf houses Hem me round everywhere; A vague dejection Weighs down my soul. Yet, while ...
When the creation was new and all the stars shone in their first splendor, the gods held their assembly in ...
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...
(AMSTERDAM, 1645) And there you are again, now as you are. Observe yourself as you discern yourself In your discredited ...
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