307. Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson (Robert Burns Poem)
O DEATH! thou tyrant fell and bloody! The meikle devil wi' a woodie Haurl thee hame to his black smiddie, ...
O DEATH! thou tyrant fell and bloody! The meikle devil wi' a woodie Haurl thee hame to his black smiddie, ...
there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay ...
From Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, on this fine morning, please come flying. In a cloud of fiery pale chemicals, ...
See, as the carver carves a rose, A wing, a toad, a serpent's eye, In cruel granite, to disclose The ...
Mysterious death! who in a single hour Life's gold can so refine And by thy art divine Change mortal weakness ...
We are sending you, dear flowers Forth alone to die, Where your gentle sisters may not weep O'er the cold ...
You thought I was that type: That you could forget me, And that I'd plead and weep And throw myself ...
Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected - I shared all this with my own people There, where ...
Memorial day for the war dead. Add now the grief of all your losses to their grief, even of a ...
Visits of condolence is all we get from them. They squat at the Holocaust Memorial, They put on grave faces ...
We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides; The spirit bloweth and is still, In ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
I ask not that my bed of death From bands of greedy heirs be free; For these besiege the latest ...
What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? ...
O THOU pale orb that silent shines While care-untroubled mortals sleep! Thou seest a wretch who inly pines. And wanders ...
IT was a' for our rightfu' King We left fair Scotland's strand; It was a' for our rightfu' King We ...
HAD I a cave on some wild distant shore, Where the winds howl to the wave's dashing roar: There would ...
O THOU, who in the heavens does dwell, Who, as it pleases best Thysel', Sends ane to heaven an' ten ...
FROM those drear solitudes and frowsy cells, Where Infamy with sad Repentance dwells; Where turnkeys make the jealous portal fast, ...
HOW can my poor heart be glad, When absent from my sailor lad; How can I the thought forego- He's ...
KILMARNOCK wabsters, fidge an' claw, An' pour your creeshie nations; An' ye wha leather rax an' draw, Of a' denominations; ...
I. FRIENDS of faces unknown and a land Unvisited over the sea, Who tell me how lonely you stand With ...
I heard an angel speak last night, And he said 'Write! Write a Nation's curse for me, And send it ...
I count the dismal time by months and years Since last I felt the green sward under foot, And the ...
Go, sit upon the lofty hill, And turn your eyes around, Where waving woods and waters wild Do hymn an ...
THANK God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well-- That ...
I. I stand on the mark beside the shore Of the first white pilgrim's bended knee, Where exile turned to ...
If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say 'I love ...
Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young ...
I tell you hopeless grief is passionless, That only men incredulous of despair, Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air ...
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