The Kalevala – Rune XXII (Elias Lonnrot Poems)
THE BRIDE'S FAREWELL.When the marriage was completed,When the many guests had feasted,At the wedding of the Northland,At the Dismal-land carousal,Spake ...
THE BRIDE'S FAREWELL.When the marriage was completed,When the many guests had feasted,At the wedding of the Northland,At the Dismal-land carousal,Spake ...
The nations are all calling To and fro, from strand to strand;Uniting in one army The slaves of ...
I stood at sunrise, on the topmost partOf lofty mountain, massively sublime;A pinnacle of trachyte, seamed and scarredBy countless generations' ...
BENEATH a Tree's green leafy shade, In Life's profusion, freshly spread, On herbage rich, and blossoms fair, Fraught with the ...
The Legend of Love-Sick Lake WHEN you wander alone through the forest And list to the murmuring song,If your heart ...
O the chatter, chatter, chatter, Of the things that do not matter. Little wordy things that clatter, Restless feet that ...
With a knock upon the window comes the young volunteer, 'Tis his step upon the threshold; "what is it brings ...
Fashionable women in luxurious homes,With men to feed them, clothe them, pay their bills,Bow, doff the hat, and fetch the ...
You named it better than you knew Who called yon little town Lachine, Though through the lapse of years betweenThe ...
A blackbird in a wicker cage, That hung and swung 'mid fruits and flowers, Had learnt the song-charm, to assuage ...
WHAT stands upon the Highland? What walks across the rise,As tho' a starry island Were sinking down the ...
I notice when the news comes in Of one who's claimed eternal glory, This simple phrase, "the ...
Bury thy sorrows, and they shall rise As souls to the immortal skies, And there look down like mothers' eyes. ...
In this world, the Isle of Dreams, While we sit by sorrow's streams, Tears and terrors are our themes, Reciting: ...
THE DOUBTERS. YE love, and sonnets write! Fate's strange behest! The heart, its hidden meaning to declare, Must seek for ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
When was the beginning, in the fertilising, in the flower, or was it deeper, in the earth beneath? No end ...
Do you mind if I write a few lines for you tonight? I'm fuelled for sure, perhaps a bit ebullient, ...
Peoples of the world, together Join to serve the common cause! So it feeds us all for ever See to ...
Bury thy sorrows, and they shall rise As souls to the immortal skies, And there look down like mothers' eyes. ...
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...
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