Male Phoenix Pleads With Female Phoenix (Ssu-mu Hsiang-ju Poems)
This male phoenix has returned to his old home,from roaming the four seas searching for his mate.Time was not yet ...
This male phoenix has returned to his old home,from roaming the four seas searching for his mate.Time was not yet ...
O LAURA ! when in philosophic dreamOn thee I thought, thou to my mind didst seemEven some disembodied spirit bright,Clothed ...
When you died,for several days the very depth of my eyeswas haunted by a dove,white, restless, easily frightened.No sooner did ...
By her white bed I muse a little space: She fell asleep--not very long ago,-- And yet the grass was here and ...
It was a mighty snug resort, that Sydney-side hotel:A snug resort where fellows dined "not wisely, but too well";The boarders ...
When through thine eyes the light of Heav'n doth shine Upon my being, and thy whisper brings, As the soft rustling of ...
Fresh fount of feeling, which from earliest days Hast sprung within mine heart, let not thy streams Now fail me, when this ...
TO THE HETMAN, PLATOFF. --------O ancient warrior! as we hail thee, And behold thy cordial smile,We hope that greetings ne'er may fail ...
WHAT is love? a compound strange,Made of mingled hopes and fears;Subject to perpetual change,Quick succeeding smiles and tears.What is love? ...
Henry hates the world. What the world to Henrydid will not bear thought.Feeling no pain,Henry stabbed his arm and wrote ...
WHEN on thy pillow lying,Half listen, I implore,And at my lute's soft sighing,Sleep on! what wouldst thou more?For at my ...
Good Kosciusko, thy great name alone Is a full harvest whence to reap high feeling; It comes upon us like the glorious ...
Little brown surf-bather of the mountains!Spirit of foam, lover of cataracts, shaking your wings in falling waters!Have you no fear ...
I.The keen stars were twinkling,And the fair moon was rising among them,Dear Jane.The guitar was tinkling,But the notes were not ...
Morning rolls in on restless trains.Her glance flashes against the iron rails.Heaven, forests and the platform are born here,Where there ...
Siddons! the Muse, for many a joy refin'd,Feelings which ever seem too swiftly fled—For those delicious tears she loves to ...
Oh, deem not, though her spirit hath defiedScandal, and Scorn, the taunts of lying lips,That Pride hath clouded it with ...
Said I thou wast not beautiful? in sooth,If that I did, shame blister my false tongueFor calumny most foul upon ...
God speaks to each of us before we are,Before he's formed us - then, in cloudy speech,But only then, he ...
Sing, youth, the loveliest song you know!Sing the song that seethes within your breast,Let your joy burst forth in passion...Don't ...
With eyes suffused and heart dissolved with sorrow,How often have I fled the realms of sleep,And sought, not vainly, from ...
Krishna conveyed by signs to clever Radha. to ...
Two poets were born where the skies were fair,To live in the land thereafter;And one was a singer of sorrow ...
Brother belov'd if health shall smile again,Upon this wasted form and fever'd cheek:If e'er returning vigour bid these weakAnd languid ...
While you made love, she lay with cold disdain.If you were suffering the heat of passionThat comes from loving with ...
War broke: and now the Winter of the worldWith perishing great darkness closes in.The foul tornado, centred at Berlin,Is over ...
When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.LET thy good deeds be free ...
I never could find a good reason Why sorrow unbidden should stay,And all the bright joys of life's season Be driven unheeded ...
YES! heaven protect thee, thou gem of the ocean;Dear land of my sires, though distant thy shores;Ere my heart cease ...
Which should I better like of, day or night?Since all the day, I live in bitter woe:Injoying light more cleere ...
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