With two spoons for two spoons (Eugene Field Poem)
How trifling shall these gifts appear Among the splendid many That loving friends now send to cheer Harvey and Ellen ...
How trifling shall these gifts appear Among the splendid many That loving friends now send to cheer Harvey and Ellen ...
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter, And from the orchard a voice echoes and ...
The top it hummeth a sweet, sweet song To my dear little boy at play - Merrily singeth all day ...
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
A CLOISTERED nun had a lover Dwelling in the neighb'ring town; Both racked their brains to discover How they best ...
WHEN Cupid with his dart, would hearts assail, The rampart most secure is not the VEIL; A husband better will ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
"La noche buena se viene, La noche buena se va, Y nosotros nos iremos Y no volveremos mas." -- Old ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
"God said I am tired of kings." -- EMERSON God said, "I am tired of kings,"-- But that was a ...
The land was broken in despair, The princes quarrelled in the dark, When clear and tranquil, through the troubled air ...
When to the garden of untroubled thought I came of late, and saw the open door, And wished again to ...
A livid sky on London And like the iron steeds that rear A shock of engines halted And I knew ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
Beneath the blaze of a tropical sun the mountain peaks are the Thrones of Frost, through the absence of objects ...
Verse, a Breeze 'mid blossoms straying, Where HOPE clung feeding, like a bee-- Both were mine ! Life went a-maying ...
AY, 'twas here, on this spot, In that summer of yore, Atalanta did not Vote my presence a bore, Nor ...
She's all my fancy painted him (I make no idle boast); If he or you had lost a limb, Which ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
Poetry, I found you where at last they chained and bound you; with devices all around you to torture and ...
Come, take our boy, and we will go Before our cabin door; The winds shall bring us, as they blow, ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
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