Lepanto (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
Thou know'st my praise of nature most sincere, And that my raptures are not conjur'd up To serve occasions of ...
Sinuously winding through the room On smokey tongues of sweetened cigarettes, -- Plaintive yet proud the cello tones resume The ...
1) Sleeping birds, lead me, soft birds, be me inside this black room, back of the white moon. In the ...
Since all, that beat about in Nature's range, Or veer or vanish ; why should'st thou remain The only constant ...
Verse, a Breeze 'mid blossoms straying, Where HOPE clung feeding, like a bee-- Both were mine ! Life went a-maying ...
Low was our pretty Cot : our tallest Rose Peep'd at the chamber-window. We could hear At silent noon, and ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
My whole world is all you refuse: a black light, angelic and cold on the path to the orchard, fox-runs ...
O NORTH! as thy romantic vales I leave, And bid farewell to each retiring hill, Where thoughtful fancy seems to ...
Bells are booming down the bohreens, White the mist along the grass, Now the Julias, Maeves and Maureens Move between ...
Encase your legs in nylons, Bestride your hills with pylons O age without a soul; Away with gentle willows And ...
1 The chestnut steed stood by the gate His noble master's will to wait, The woody park so green and ...
How brightly glistening in the sun The woodland ivy plays! While yonder beeches from their barks Reflect his silver rays. ...
A little while, a little while, The weary task is put away, And I can sing and I can smile, ...
The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
Spot of my youth! whose hoary branches sigh, Swept by the breeze that fans thy cloudless sky; Where now alone ...
THE THAMES flows proudly to the sea, Where royal cities stately stand; But sweeter flows the Nith to me, Where ...
AS I gaed up by yon gate-end, When day was waxin' weary, Wha did I meet come down the street, ...
ADOWN winding Nith I did wander, To mark the sweet flowers as they spring; Adown winding Nith I did wander, ...
FAREWELL, thou stream that winding flows Around Eliza's dwelling; O mem'ry! spare the cruel thoes Within my bosom swelling. Condemn'd ...
ADMIRING Nature in her wildest grace, These northern scenes with weary feet I trace; O'er many a winding dale and ...
Chorus-Fairest maid on Devon banks, Crystal Devon, winding Devon, Wilt thou lay that frown aside, And smile as thou wert ...
This is the house of Bedlam. This is the man that lies in the house of Bedlam. This is the ...
September rain falls on the house. In the failing light, the old grandmother sits in the kitchen with the child ...
As evening falls, The walls grow luminous and warm, the walls Tremble and glow with the lives within them moving, ...
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