Elegy I (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenlypressed me against ...
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenlypressed me against ...
HUGH FALCON learned this happy truth one day;('Twas a fair noontide in the month of May)--When, as the chaplain of ...
An Ode for MusicWhen Music, heavenly maid, was young,While yet in early Greece she sung,The Passions oft, to hear her ...
To you, creation'smighty principle,matter and spiritreason and senseWhilst the winesparkles in cupslike the soulin the eyeWhilst earth andsun exchangetheir smiles ...
Dark the halls, and cold the feast,Gone the bridemaids, gone the priest.All is over, all is done,Twain of yesterday are ...
First-born of Chaos, who so fair didst comeFrom the old Negro's darksome womb!Which, when it saw the lovely child,The melancholy ...
The twilight o'er Italia's sky Had spread a shadowy veil, And one by one the solemn stars Looked forth, serene and pale; As quietly ...
'TWAS a balmy summer evening, and a goodly crowd was there,Which well-nigh filled Joe's barroom, on the corner of the ...
OH ! I thou! whose Genius as thy Virtue shines,Around whose brows the wreath of Fame entwines;Benign Preceptress of thy ...
This is an obvious imitation of Walt Whitman, is it?Well, and wouldn't that be better than another in sickly rime?Perhaps ...
Mighty magician! who on Torneo's brow,When sullen tempests wrap the throne of night,Art wont to sit and catch the gleam ...
In the Borghese, Caravaggio, painter of boy whores, street punk, exile & murderer,Left behind his own face in the decapitated, ...
ADDRESSED TO SAMUEL JAMES ARNOLD, Esq.: "Behold, with mild and matron mien, "With sober eye, and brow serene, "October sweep along; "Bright are ...
When poets wrote and painters drewAs Nature pointed out the view,Ere Gothic forms were known in GreeceTo spoil the well-proportion'd ...
Blessings on the blessing children, sweetest gifts of Heaven to earth,Filling all the heart with gladness, filling all the house ...
It was not that I lived a life of ease, Quiet, secure, apart from every care;For on the darkest of my ...
I marked a rainbow in the north, What time the wild autumnal sun From his dark veil at noon looked forth, As glorying ...
I.Shell the old city I shell!Ye myrmidons of Hell;Ye serve your master well,With hellish arts!Hurl down, with bolt and fire,The ...
Aw live in a snug little cot,An' tho' poor, yet aw keep aght o' debt,Cloise by, in a big garden ...
We were not by when Jesus came, But round us, far and near, We see His trophies, and His name In choral echoes ...
There is the ruined water-mill With its rotten wheel, that stands as still As its image that sleeps in the glassy pool Where ...
Recited at Burns' Centenary Festival, held at Mauchlin, January 25, 1859Oh Bard beloved! as pilgrims to thy shrine, With song and ...
I. Kempton, PennsylvaniaPerhaps the last of the lightlifting this evening from the field of wheatmeans something. Perhaps the viewincludes us, ...
IAs he stood there erect before the Gateand impregnable in his sorrowFar from the world where his spirit soughtto bring ...
Who falsely called thee destroyer, still white Angel of Death? Oh not a destroyer here, but a kind restorer, thou,For the ...
From Lake Como's depths ascending,With embankments steepStands a wooded headland, bendingWith majestic sweepTill its rugged shores, expanding,Join two charming bays,Now, ...
I think awhile of Love, and while I think, Love is to me a world, Sole meat and sweetest drink, And close connecting ...
The day is closing dark and cold,With roaring blast and sleety showers;And through the dusk the lilacs wearThe bloom of ...
The table was filled with many objectsThe wild tribesmen in the hills,whose very robes were decorated with designsof a strangeness ...
ON a rocky peak once sat I early,Gazing on the mist with eyes unmoving;Stretch'd out like a pall of greyish ...
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