Festus – II (Philip James Bailey Poems)
From heaven, soul--like, to earth. It is sundown. MarkThe heart's state, empty and collapsed, the world'sVain pleasures leave us in, ...
From heaven, soul--like, to earth. It is sundown. MarkThe heart's state, empty and collapsed, the world'sVain pleasures leave us in, ...
He was a man with wide and patient eyes,Grey, like the drift of twitch-fires blown in June,That, without fearing, searched ...
Loud raves the blast, and, smell, the sleety showersDrive over hill and dale with hurrying sweep.The leafless boughs all to ...
Dragon! since lyrics are the mode,To thee I dedicate my Ode,And reason good I plead:Are those who cannot write, to ...
The Southern Muse--so long with drooping wing,--The Southern Muse, alas! too sad to sing--Her fair head drooped and dim her ...
Bred in distant woods, the clownBrings all his country airs to town;The odd address, with awkward grace,That bows with half-averted ...
Unform'd in Nature's Shop, while Crassus lay,A cumbrous Heap of coarse neglected Clay,Pray, Madam, says the Foreman of the Trade,What ...
ADDRESSED TO THE CRITICAL REVIEWERS. Tristitiam et Metus.--HORACE.Laughs not the heart when giants, big with pride,Assume the pompous port, the ...
Bred in distant woods, the clown Brings all his country airs to town; The odd address, with awkward grace, That ...
Our cowman, old Ed, hadn't much in his head, And lots of folks though him a witling; But he wasn't ...
Like prim Professor of a College I primed my shelves with books of knowledge; And now I stand before them ...
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
She said: the pitying audience melt in tears, But Fate and Jove had stopp'd the Baron's ears. In vain Thalestris ...
An idle poet, here and there, Looks around him; but, for all the rest, The world, unfathomably fair, Is duller ...
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
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