Rural Sports: A Georgic – Canto I. (John Gay Poems)
You, who the sweets of rural life have known,Despise the ungrateful hurry of the town;In Windsor groves your easy hours ...
You, who the sweets of rural life have known,Despise the ungrateful hurry of the town;In Windsor groves your easy hours ...
THE OTHER NIGHT I got the blues and tried to smile in vain.I couldn't chuck a chuckle at the foolery ...
Now this is the song of a prison-a song of a gaol or jug-A ballad of quod or of chokey, ...
"And My Spirit Was Troubled to Know the Dream"WHAT was my dream? Though consciousness be clear, I hold no memory of ...
Old Father Abe has issued his "Call"For Three Hundred Thousand more!By Jupiter, boys, he is after you all--Lamed and ...
THOUGH she has a name you bore,Elfin-Heart we loved before,You are lost to us, you child,Little life-flame burning wild!Though her ...
When he is old and past all singing,Grant, kindly Time, that he may hearThe rhythm through joyous Nature ringing,Uncaught by ...
Thy hand my hand,Thine eyes my eyes,All of theeCaught and confused with me:My hand thy hand,My eyes thine eyes,All of ...
"TO-NIGHT," you said, "to-night, all Ireland roundThe curlews call." The dinner-talk went on,And I knew what you heard and what ...
Oh, but the heavenly grammar did I holdOf that high speech which angels' tongues turn gold!So should her deathless beauty ...
Now it was clear to every ShadeThat some great wonder was before them,As Tom upon the palisadeEmptied, as fast as ...
1 COME, said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the Universal. In this ...
1 PROUD music of the storm! Blast that careers so free, whistling across the prairies! Strong hum of forest tree-tops! ...
(To Mrs. Henry Richards) Isaac and Archibald were two old men. I knew them, and I may have laughed at ...
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