Beowulf (Episode 39) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
IT was heavy hap for that hero youngon his lord beloved to look and find himlying on earth with life ...
IT was heavy hap for that hero youngon his lord beloved to look and find himlying on earth with life ...
THUS seethed unceasing the son of Healfdenewith the woe of these days; not wisest menassuaged his sorrow; too sore the ...
THE fall of his lord he was fain to requitein after days; and to Eadgils he provedfriend to the friendless, ...
ll. 169-191)….It did not seem good to the Lord of heaven thatAdam should longer be alone as warden and keeper ...
Hark, hark!The dogs do bark;Beggars are coming to town:Some in rags,Some in tags,And some in velvet gowns!Coming, coming always!Crowding into ...
Warden, wind the clock again!Mighty years are going onThrough the shadows, joy and pain,And the happy hearted dawn.High within Time's ...
(ll. 135-143) The day departed, hasting over the dwellings ofearth. And after the gleaming light the Lord, our maker, thruston ...
THE Lord God planted a garden In the first white days of the ...
Hear the choir of boy and maid,Mighty child of mightiest Jove,Thou whom royal mother laidIn the Delian olive grove— That ...
A mist was driving down the British Channel, The day was just begun, And through the window-panes, on floor and ...
BOMBAY Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen Fronting thy richest sea with richer hands -- A thousand mills roar through ...
For things we never mention, For Art misunderstood -- For excellent intention That did not turn to good; From ancient ...
A YOUNG fig-tree its form lifts high Within a beauteous garden; And see, a goat is sitting by. As if ...
Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhatten Bay, The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
I. Let them fight it out, friend! things have gone too far. God must judge the couple: leave them as ...
LOUD blaw the frosty breezes, The snaws the mountains cover; Like winter on me seizes, Since my young Highland rover ...
All right. Try this, Then. Every body I know and care for, And every body Else is going To die ...
I'm pardoned out. Again the stars Shine on me with their myriad eyes. So long I've peered 'twixt iron bars, ...
Incarnate devil in a talking snake, The central plains of Asia in his garden, In shaping-time the circle stung awake, ...
Being a gaoler I'm supposed To be a hard-boiled guy; Yet never prison walls enclosed A kinder soul than I: ...
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