Hold your mad hands (Robert Southey Poems)
Hold your mad hands! for ever on your plain Must the gorged vulture clog his beak with blood? For ever ...
Hold your mad hands! for ever on your plain Must the gorged vulture clog his beak with blood? For ever ...
As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From nature, I believe 'em true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault ...
Still falls the Rain--- Dark as the world of man, black as our loss--- Blind as the nineteen hundred and ...
'God' is composed of letters three, But if you put an 'l' Before the last it seems to me A ...
God dwells in you; in pride and shame, In all you do to blight or bless; In all you are ...
I never kill a fly because I think that what we have of laws To regulate and civilize Our daily ...
He was an old prospector with a vision bleared and dim. He asked me for a grubstake, and the same ...
Gold! We leapt from our benches. Gold! We sprang from our stools. Gold! We wheeled in the furrow, fired with ...
I strolled up old Bonanza, where I staked in ninety-eight, A-purpose to revisit the old claim. I kept thinking mighty ...
CANTO IIII To sinfull house of Pride, Duessa guides the faithfull knight, Where brothers death to wreak Sansjoy doth chalenge ...
ARion, when through tempests cruel wracke, He forth was thrown into the greedy seas: through the sweet musick which his ...
INnocent paper whom too cruell hand, Did make the matter to auenge her yre: and ere she could thy cause ...
'Why keep a cow when I can buy,' Said he, 'the milk I need,' I wanted to spit in his ...
What are we fighting for, We fellows who go to war? fighting for Freedom's sake! (You give me the belly-ache.) ...
'Tis hard to hang a husky lad When larks are in the sky; It hurts when daffydills are glad To ...
THIS girl was sweeter than the song of swans, And daintier than the lamb upon the lawns Or Curine oyster. ...
I We thrill too strangely at the master's touch; We shrink too sadly from the larger self Which for its ...
[As a Tribute of Esteem and Admiration this Poem is inscribed to ROBERT MERRY, Esq. A. M. Member of the ...
I. Where freezing wastes of dazzl'ing Snow O'er LEMAN'S Lake rose, tow'ring; The BARON GOLFRE'S Castle strong Was seen, the ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
Somebody is shooting at something in our town -- A dull pom, pom in the Sunday street. Jealousy can open ...
(From the early Anglo-Saxon text) May I for my own self song's truth reckon, Journey's jargon, how I in harsh ...
I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better Knowledge, sent to where I met him ...
Bring me a quart of colonial beer And some doughy damper to make good cheer, I must make a heavy ...
All night long the hockey pictures gaze down at you sleeping in your tracksuit. Belligerent goalies are your ideal. Threats ...
The air heaving like a wounded fish, breathing through its purplish sandy gills, letting in the salty gale, fluttering its ...
Come, rest awhile, and let us idly stray In glimmering valleys, cool and far away. Come from the greedy mart, ...
The ArgumentA certain man having landed on an island in the Greek sea, found there a beautifuldamsel, whom he would ...
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
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