Sermon in a Churchyard (Thomas Babbington Macaulay Poems)
Let pious Damon take his seat,With mincing step and languid smile,And scatter from his 'kerchief sweet,Sabaean odours o'er the aisle;And ...
Let pious Damon take his seat,With mincing step and languid smile,And scatter from his 'kerchief sweet,Sabaean odours o'er the aisle;And ...
Ere Margaret was three months old,Her father laid her in the mould!Poor Babe! her fleeting visit hereWas marked by many ...
A five-year old in a Cape Cod village, twenty miles from the rail,Falmouth, Falmouth, loveliest Falmouth,Wearing her silvery, pearl-embroidered ocean ...
The toils, the flames, the thunders of the siege Are quench'd and hush'd. Night shrouds in funeral pallThe fallen fortress, and ...
O nation, Christian nation, Lift high the hymn of praiseThe God of our Salvation Is love in all His ways:He blesseth us, ...
They ask me to sing them a Christmas song That with musical mirth shall ring;How know I that the world's ...
A parody of Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology," wherein characters from famous poems and novels recite their own epithets.ANNABEL ...
(_Benares_)At the burning-ghat, O Kali, Mother divine and dread,See, I am waiting with open lips Over the newly dead.I am ...
A' YE wha live by sowps o' drink, A' ye wha live by crambo-clink, A' ye wha live and never ...
STANDING IN EDEN 1 Poetry claimed me young on Skegness beach Before I was born I answered her cry For ...
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