The Ballad of Lost Souls (John Oxenham Poems)
With the thirty pieces of silver,They bought the Potter's Field;For none would have the blood-moneyAnd the interest it might yield.The ...
With the thirty pieces of silver,They bought the Potter's Field;For none would have the blood-moneyAnd the interest it might yield.The ...
A story that has for its background Saint Patrick's Purgatory.Characters:JONATHAN SWIFT and ESTHER VANHOMRIGHESTHERI know the answer: 'tis ingenious.I'm tired ...
The Winner of the Queen's Prize at Rifle Shooting, Wimbledon, 1866."When wine and other liquors were pressed upon him after ...
I'D have you use a wise philosophy,In this, as in all matters, whereuponJudgment may freely act; truth ever liesBetween extremes; ...
In Praise of Alcohol Of vintage wine I am a lover;To drink deep would be my delight;If 'twere not for ...
Some love to stroll where the wassail-bowl And the wine-cups circle free;None of that band shall win my hand: No! a sober ...
The soldier month, the bulwark of the year,That never more shall hear such victories told;He stands apparent with his heaven-high ...
IEnter these enchanted woods,You who dare.Nothing harms beneath the leavesMore than waves a swimmer cleaves.Toss your heart up with the ...
1--IWhen the South sang like a nightingaleAbove a bower in May,The training of Love's vine of flameWas writ in laws, ...
Fear! I'm a Greek, and how should I fear death?A slave, and wherefore should I dread my freedom?I will not ...
There is but one place in the world:-Thither where he lies buried! ...
THE proper way to eat a fig, in society,Is to split it in four, holding it by the stump,And open ...
READING in Omar till the thoughts that burnedUpon his pages seemed to be inurnedWithin me in a silent fire, my ...
"THE COLD blast at the casement beats; The window-panes are white; The snow whirls through the empty streets; ...
I have been temperate always, But I am like to be very drunk With your coming. There have been times ...
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