Cymon And Iphigenia. From Boccace (John Henry Dryden Poems)
Old as I am, for lady's love unfit,The power of beauty I remember yet,Which once inflamed my soul, and still ...
Old as I am, for lady's love unfit,The power of beauty I remember yet,Which once inflamed my soul, and still ...
Blue-eyed was Elf the minstrel, With womanish hair and ring, Yet heavy was his hand on sword, Though light upon the string. And as ...
To season fresh acquaintance, these lines take From him, that for his friends, and vertues sake Dares rather doe, then speake: for ...
Bring the wine-cup, companions! and let it go round! At its bottom good humor and mirth will be found; Bring ...
Resplendent as on that great morn he rose, When, from the inmost depth of heaven's immense, The bright eternal solitude ...
On the next morrow, early, rose the king; And sat upon his throne: at his right hand, The heroic queen: ...
1--IIn middle age an evil thingBefell Archduchess Anne:She looked outside her wedding-ringUpon a princely man.IICount Louis was for horse and ...
Our Skeeta was married, our Skeeta! the tomboy and pet of the ...
Dead is he? Yes, our stranger guest said dead— said it by noonday, when it seemed a thing most natural ...
A man's a mug. I've worked the 'ole thing out To-day, down in the orchard where I sat ...
WITH such a Pulse, with such disorder'd Veins, Such lab'ring Breath, as thy Disease constrains; With failing Eyes, that scarce ...
Since Galatea came in, and Tuscanism gan usurp,Vanity above all: villainy next her, stateliness EmpressNo man but minion, stout, lout, ...
Moving from Cheer to Joy, from Joy to All, I take a box And add it to my wild rice, ...
WITH such a Pulse, with such disorder'd Veins, Such lab'ring Breath, as thy Disease constrains; With failing Eyes, that scarce ...
LOQUITUR: En Bertans de Born. Dante Alighieri put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer up of ...
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