To the Queen. (Anne Killigrew Poem)
AS those who pass the Alps do say, The Rocks which first oppose their way, And so amazing-High do show, ...
AS those who pass the Alps do say, The Rocks which first oppose their way, And so amazing-High do show, ...
1918 God rest you, peaceful gentlemen, let nothing you dismay, But--leave your sports a little while--the dead are borne this ...
Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed, To ease the strong of their burden, to ...
If after rude and boisterous seas My wearied pinnace here finds ease; If so it be I've gain'd the shore, ...
A wearied pilgrim I have wander'd here, Twice five-and-twenty, bate me but one year; Long I have lasted in this ...
Give me a cell To dwell, Where no foot hath A path; There will I spend, And end, My wearied ...
THERE were two youths of equal age, Wit, station, strength, and parentage; They studied at the self-same schools, And shaped ...
WITH a bridegroom's joyous bearing, Mounts Sir Curt his noble beast, To his mistress' home repairing, There to hold his ...
[Goethe describes this much-admired Poem, which he wrote in honour of his love Lily, as being "designed to change his ...
[First published in Schiller's Horen, in connection with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great ...
My wearied heart bade me farewell and left for the House of Fortune. As he reached that holy city which ...
When I died, love, when I died my heart was broken in your care; I never suffered love so fair ...
There--let thy hands be folded Awhile in sleep's repose; The patient hands that wearied not, But earnestly and nobly wrought ...
O fountain of Bandusia, Whence crystal waters flow, With garlands gay and wine I'll pay The sacrifice I owe; A ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Ourselves were wed one summer -- dear -- Your Vision -- was in June -- And when Your little Lifetime ...
Under what withering leprous light The very grass as hair is grey, Grass in the cracks of the paven courts ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
A green and silent spot, amid the hills, A small and silent dell ! O'er stiller place No singing sky-lark ...
Now as an angler melancholy standing Upon a green bank yielding room for landing, A wriggling yellow worm thrust on ...
Cupid on a summer day, Wearied by unceasing play, In a rose heart sleeping lay, While, to guard the tricksy ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
When you were there, and you, and you, Happiness crowned the night; I too, Laughing and looking, one of all, ...
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
I 'Tis done -- but yesterday a King! And arm'd with Kings to strive -- And now thou art a ...
To gaze at a river made of time and water And remember Time is another river. To know we stray ...
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs, The not-incurious in God's handiwork (This man's-flesh he hath admirably made, Blown like a ...
O WERE my love yon Lilac fair, Wi' purple blossoms to the Spring, And I, a bird to shelter there, ...
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