Colin’s Mistakes. Written In Imitation Of Spenser’s Style (Matthew Prior Poems)
Fast by the banks of Cam was Colin bred,(Ye Nymphs, for every guard that sacred stream)To Wimple's woody shade his ...
Fast by the banks of Cam was Colin bred,(Ye Nymphs, for every guard that sacred stream)To Wimple's woody shade his ...
'OH! hide me from the sun! I loath the sight!I cannot bear his bright, obtrusive ray:Nought is so dreadful to ...
O Dearly loved!And worthy of our love! No moreThy aged form shall rise beforeThe bushed and waiting worshiper,In meek obedience ...
Yon vale among the mountains, So sheltered from the sea,That lake which lies so lonely, Shall tell their tale to thee.Here stood ...
A Song of EmptinessTo Fill up the Empty Pages FollowingVain, frail, short liv'd, and miserable Man,Learn what thou art when ...
I fell asleep upon a summer's dayAs on a shady woodland bank I lay,And as I slept there came to ...
"O dearest mother! tell me, pray, Why are the dew-drops gone so soon?Could they not stay till close of day,To sparkle ...
Beneath a hawthorn bush, dying, he layUpon an orchard slope, a gentle hill;The silvery moonlight thro' the night did playUpon ...
This is an introduction to the Japanese Zen poet Taigu Ryoken known for his beautiful almost seer-like poetry. He revelled ...
It is time (it was time long ago) I should severThis chain — why I wear it I know not ...
I always was a remarkable child; so old for my age, and such a sensitive nature!-Mamma often says so.And I'm ...
Sing thy Creator's praise, and ownHim greatest—wisest—God alone;He wraps himself in robes of light,And, clothed in garments pure and bright,Of ...
We reached the place by night, And heard the waves breaking:They came to meet us with candles alight To show the path ...
WHY didst thou leave me thus? Had memoryNo chain to bind thee to me, lone and wreckedIn spirit as I ...
Last night — it was a lovely night, And I was very blest — Shall it not be for Memory A happy spot ...
There is a kind of writer pleased with sound, Whose fustian head with clouds is compassed round-- No reason can disperse them ...
Ye Gods of Greece! Bright Fictions! when Ye ruled, of old, a happier race, And mildly bound rejoicing men In bonds of Beauty ...
Fairies can hide anywhere,Up and down, and in and out,'Neath the cushion of a chair,In a teapot's empty spout;They can ...
First my Thalia stooped in sportive moodTo Syracusan strains, nor blushed withinThe woods to house her. When I sought to ...
I REMEMBER it well; 'twas a morn dull and gray,And the legion lay idle and listless that day,A thin drizzle ...
This peace that makes a happy life,-- And that is mine through my sweet wife; Beginning of my soul, and end, I've gained ...
Dear Reynolds, as last night I lay in bed,There came before my eyes that wonted threadOf shapes, and shadows, and ...
They went to the January house, A house made all of snow, With windows of ice, and chandeliers Of icicles all in a ...
Love is our Reasons Paradox, which stillAgainst the judgment doth maintain the Will:And governs by such arbitrary laws,It onely makes ...
A brother's eye had seen the grief That Duart's lady bore;His boat with sail half-raised flies down The sound by green Lismore.Ahaladah, ...
O this political air so heavy with the bellsand motors of a slow night, and no place to restbut rain ...
I hate the clamours of the smoky towns,But much admire the bliss of rural clowns;Where some remains of innocence appear,Where ...
Ugliest little boythat everyone ever saw.That is what everyone said.Even to his mother it was apparent-when the blue-aproned nurse came ...
THEE finds me in the garden, Hannah,-come in! 'T is kind of theeTo wait until the Friends were gone, who ...
O Radiant Land! o'er whom the Sun's first dawningFell brightest when God said " Let there be Light;"'O'er whom the ...
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