Sonnets At Christmas I (Allen Tate Poems)
This is the day His hour of life draws near,Let me get ready from head to foot for itMost handily ...
This is the day His hour of life draws near,Let me get ready from head to foot for itMost handily ...
To ports of balm through isles of muskThe gentle airs are leading us;To curtained calm and tents of dusk,The wood-wild ...
She never had a diamondTo grace her small left hand,No sapphires or anythingExcept her plain gold band,No sparkling jewels of ...
Ye aspiring ones, listen to the story of the unknownWho lies here with no stone to mark the place.As a ...
Rebecca's maid: a girl come from afar,an angel, lovely, in a shift of rosesand on her face she seemed to ...
It was an actor, seedy, sad, Who stood within the gate;Long weary marches he had had - He had not ...
Such guests as you, sir, were not in my mindWhen I my homely dish with care designed;'Twas certain humble souls ...
Joseph's father made him a beautiful coat.His jealous brothers sold Joseph to menWho took him to Egypt.There he becameAn important ...
Enough he labours for his hire;Yea, nought can pay his pain;But powers that wear and waste and tire,Need help to ...
The father crossed himself and blessed the food.His face became darker, as if a distant storymoved him anew, a long ...
Our house is waiting for the guest with open doors,The tastiest dishes for guests - that's understood.If you are greedy ...
O divine star of Heaven,Thou in power above the seven; Thou, O gentle Queen, that art Curer of each wounded ...
Long ago when the world beganEve, the woman, and Adam, the man,Worshiped God in the Garden.Then as they wandered to ...
The Body of Benjamin Franklin (Printer)(Like the cover of an old bookIts contents torn outAnd stript of its lettering and ...
O dear! that artful boy Refuses me a word! But, Sir, I shall enjoy My food, though you're ...
On level land, the finest inn,With plenty of food and beer withinAnd every hour of the dayThe songs of birds, ...
Good from the good,—to the reason this is not hard of conception; But the genius has power good from ...
Sir Alexander Acland-HoodBelieved in Free Food:But he was EleusinianAbout this opinion.(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
Sir Robert PeelSaid it was not genteelBut on the contrary, very rudeTo tax the people's food.(Edmund Clerihew Bentley)
Too far away, oh love, I know, To save me from this haunted road, Whose lofty roses break and blow ...
I Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great ...
1 A yellow band of light upon the street Pours from an open door, and makes a wide Pathway of ...
No. It's an impudent falsehood. Men did not Invariably think the newer way Prosaic mad, inelegant, or what not. Was ...
The little lives of earth and form, Of finding food, and keeping warm, Are not like ours, and yet A ...
He'd been for years in Sydney "a-acting of the goat", His name was Joseph Swallow, "the Great Australian Pote", In ...
There's many a schoolboy's bat and ball that are gathering dust at home, For he hears a voice in the ...
Full of wrath was Hiawatha When he came into the village, Found the people in confusion, Heard of all the ...
Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter! Ever thicker, thicker, thicker Froze the ice on ...
You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis, How the handsome Yenadizze Danced at Hiawatha's wedding; How the gentle Chibiabos, He the sweetest ...
Can it be the sun descending O'er the level plain of water? Or the Red Swan floating, flying, Wounded by ...
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