Cymon And Iphigenia. From Boccace (John Henry Dryden Poems)
Old as I am, for lady's love unfit,The power of beauty I remember yet,Which once inflamed my soul, and still ...
Old as I am, for lady's love unfit,The power of beauty I remember yet,Which once inflamed my soul, and still ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stoodA while as mute, confounded what to say,What to reply, confuted and ...
The wasting thistle whitens on my crest,The barren grasses blow upon my spear,A green, pale pennon: blazon of wild faithAnd ...
Poem Read At Cambridge On The Hundredth Anniversary Of Washington's Taking Command Of The American ArmyIWords pass as wind, but ...
O, MANDRAGORA, many sing in praiseOf life, and death, and immortality,--Of passion, that goes famished all her days,--Of Faith, or ...
HE stands within the silent square,That square of state, of gloom;A heavy weight is on the air,Which hangs as o'er ...
CHANGE shall accustom me in after yearsTo kingdom's builded on life's overthrow;Onward with other poets I shall go,Unpraised of thee. ...
What things I have missed today, I know very wellBut the seeing of them each new time is miracle,Nothing between ...
As still, with Hope's delusion gay,AMANTOR traced his devious way,A stately Palace rose to view;The walls were gold ...
An empty bench, a sky of grayest etching,A bare, bleak shed in blackest silhouette,Twelve years of platform, and before them ...
Alas! his praise I cannot write,Nor paint him true for other eyes;For only in love's blessed lightCould you have known ...
The wise thrush, the wise thrush, she choseth well her tree, Made her nest in the laurel's leafy shade. But ...
They bear no laurels on their sunless brows,Nor aught within their pale hands as they go;They look as men accustomed ...
Among earth's poets certain known of fewPass into deathlessness o'er death's frontiers,Unpraised, unprized, unlaurell'd of their peers.Yet in time's patient ...
THERE is a constant joy that I have foundOn upland pastures in the light of noon,Far from a human face ...
Why is that wanton gossip Fame So dumb about this man's affairs? Why do we titter at his name Who ...
She has laughed as softly as if she sighed, She has counted six, and over, Of a purse well filled, ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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