The Child-World (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
A Child-World, yet a wondrous world no less,To those who knew its boundless happiness.A simple old frame house--eight rooms in ...
A Child-World, yet a wondrous world no less,To those who knew its boundless happiness.A simple old frame house--eight rooms in ...
Upon this earth, the land of the Victorious Ones,Once lived a Saint, known as the second Buddha;His fame was heard ...
SILENT old gateway! whose two columns stand Like simple monuments on either hand; No trellised iron-work, with pleasant view Of ...
Behold! As from the shades of night, An army gathers full of might, And strong with constant courage stands 'Tween ...
(With respectful reference to the admirable exploit of PettyOfficer Alan Baker, of L .B .V. 37)The Bluebell was a lighter, ...
Through all the moving thoroughfares And in the contending marts of trade; Within the babbling magazines and Even as I ...
(With mild apologies to the L.P.T.B.)O silly Brown, O silly Brown,Be careful, do, in London Town.Do not attempt to cross ...
Clouds darken the plain.From all sides, the mountains of the horizon move forward; the plain shrinks, crumpled into valleys that ...
The tightness and the nilness round that space when the car stops in the road, the troops inspect its make ...
I could see it, sense it a change from a few days ago a difference in her, welling up shining ...
Like an army general on parade reviewing the troops in the convoy tooling down the highway into battle I drove ...
Travelling on the thumb, it wasn't hard to do, you took the rides that you could get with no regrets ...
Contemplating Hell, as I once heard it, My brother Shelley found it to be a place Much like the city ...
POET. O A NEW song, a free song, Flapping, flapping, flapping, flapping, by sounds, by voices clearer, By the wind's ...
1 TO think of time-of all that retrospection! To think of to-day, and the ages continued henceforward! Have you guess'd ...
THERE was a child went forth every day; And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became; And ...
1 STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands-lover ...
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
Nolueram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos; Sedjuvat, hoc precibus me tribuisse tuis. (Martial, Epigrams 12.84) What dire offence from am'rous causes ...
Blats booted to blatant dubbing the avenue dire with rubbings of Sveinn Forkbeard leading a black squall of Harleys with ...
Here, where precipitate Spring with one light bound Into hot Summer's lusty arms expires; And where go forth at morn, ...
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