Sir Humphrey Gilbert (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and gast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his ...
Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and gast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his ...
January Janus am I; oldest of potentates; Forward I look, and backward, and below I count, as god of avenues ...
You shall hear how Hiawatha Prayed and fasted in the forest, Not for greater skill in hunting, Not for greater ...
Oft have I seen at some cathedral door . A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat, . Lay down ...
Forth upon the Gitche Gumee, On the shining Big-Sea-Water, With his fishing-line of cedar, Of the twisted bark of cedar, ...
"As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, ...
On the Mountains of the Prairie, On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry, Gitche Manito, the mighty, He the Master of ...
I am the God Thor, I am the War God, I am the Thunderer! Here in my Northland, My fastness ...
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, ...
By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer ...
"Give me of your bark, O Birch-tree! Of your yellow bark, O Birch-tree! Growing by the rushing river, Tall and ...
Three Kings came riding from far away, Melchior and Gaspar and Baltasar; Three Wise Men out of the East were ...
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
X. Hiawatha's Wooing "As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman, Though she bends him, ...
I saw, as in a dream sublime, The balance in the hand of Time. O'er East and West its beam ...
Black shadows fall From the lindens tall, That lift aloft their massive wall Against the southern sky; And from the ...
Downward through the evening twilight, In the days that are forgotten, In the unremembered ages, From the full moon fell ...
As a pale phantom with a lamp Ascends some ruin's haunted stair, So glides the moon along the damp Mysterious ...
In the market-place of Bruges stands the belfry old and brown; Thrice consumed and thrice rebuilded, still it watches o'er ...
In broad daylight, and at noon, Yesterday I saw the moon Sailing high, but faint and white, As a schoolboy's ...
I have read, in some old, marvellous tale, Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight host of spectres pale ...
Half of my life is gone, and I have let The years slip from me and have not fulfilled The ...
In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face -- the face of one long dead -- Looks ...
Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in ...
She dwells by Great Kenhawa's side, In valleys green and cool; And all her hope and all her pride Are ...
The Slaver in the broad lagoon Lay moored with idle sail; He waited for the rising moon, And for the ...
Blind Bartimeus at the gates Of Jericho in darkness waits; He hears the crowd;--he hears a breath Say, "It is ...
I. Solemnly, mournfully, Dealing its dole, The Curfew Bell Is beginning to toll. Cover the embers, And put out the ...
L'eternite est une pendule, dont le balancier dit et redit sans cesse ces deux mots seulement dans le silence des ...
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