To Quintus Hirpinus (Eugene Field Poems)
To Scythian and Cantabrian plots, Pay them no heed, O Quintius! So long as we From care are ...
To Scythian and Cantabrian plots, Pay them no heed, O Quintius! So long as we From care are ...
There—let thy hands be folded Awhile in sleep's repose;The patient hands that wearied not,But earnestly and nobly wrought ...
Pompey, what fortune gives you back To the friends and the gods who love you?Once more you stand in your ...
HEWhen you were mine, in auld lang syne, And when none else your charms might ogle,I'll not deny, fair nymph, ...
See, Thaliarch mine, how, white with snow, Soracte mocks the sullen sky;How, groaning loud, the woods are bowed, And chained ...
Last night, as my dear babe lay dead,In agony I knelt and said:"0 God! what have I done,Or in what ...
When Father Time swings round his scythe, Entomb me 'neath the bounteous vine,So that its juices, red and blithe, May ...
God rest you, Chrysten gentil men, Wherever you may be,—God rest you all in fielde or hall, Or on ye ...
To-day, fair Thisbe, winsome girl! Strays o'er the meads where daisies blow, Or, ling'ring where the brooklets ...
My Shepherd is the Lord my God,— There is no want I know;His flock He leads in verdant meads, Where ...
(FROM THE GERMAN OF MARTIN LUTHER)O heart of mine! lift up thine eyesAnd see who in yon manger lies!Of perfect ...
What end the gods may have ordained for me, And what for thee, Seek not to learn, Leuconoe; we ...
Syn that you, Chloe, to your moder sticken,Maketh all ye yonge bacheloures full sicken;Like as a lyttel deere you ben ...
Syn that you, Chloe, to your moder sticken,Maketh all ye yonge bacheloures full sicken;Like as a lyttel deere you ben ...
Seek not, Leuconoee, to know how long you're going to live yet,What boons the gods will yet withhold, or what ...
Shall I woo the one or other? Both attract me—more's the pity!Pretty is the widowed mother, And the daughter, too, ...
When thou dost eat from off this plate,I charge thee be thou temperate;Unto thine elders at the boardDo thou sweet ...
Where wail the waters in their flaw A spectre wanders to and fro, And evermore that ghostly shore Bemoans the ...
There--let thy hands be folded Awhile in sleep's repose; The patient hands that wearied not, But earnestly and nobly wrought ...
I Once a fowler, young and artless, To the quiet greenwood came; Full of skill was he and heartless In ...
Cinna, the great Venusian told In songs that will not die How in Augustan days of old Your love did ...
Aha! a traitor in the camp, A rebel strangely bold,-- A lisping, laughing, toddling scamp, Not more than four years ...
My Shepherd is the Lord my God,-- There is no want I know; His flock He leads in verdant meads, ...
Out yonder in the moonlight, wherein God's Acre lies, Go angels walking to and fro, singing their lullabies. Their radiant ...
Last night, as my dear babe lay dead, In agony I knelt and said: "0 God! what have I done, ...
Oh, come with me to the Happy Isles In the golden haze off yonder, Where the song of the sun-kissed ...
"Sweetheart, take this," a soldier said, "And bid me brave good-by; It may befall we ne'er shall wed, But love ...
Away down East where I was reared amongst my Yankee kith, There used to live a pretty girl whose name ...
When Willie was a little boy, No more than five or six, Right constantly he did annoy His mother with ...
(FROM THE GERMAN OF MARTIN LUTHER) O heart of mine! lift up thine eyes And see who in yon manger ...
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