Paradise Regained: The Second Book (John Milton Poems)
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
A step-mother drove me from home, embittering me. A squaw-man, a flaneur and dilettante took my virtue. For years I ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
From Bindle's opera house in the village To Broadway is a great step. But I tried to take it, my ...
All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood; I turned and looked another ...
My father who owned the wagon-shop And grew rich shoeing horses Sent me to the University of Montreal. I learned ...
Aye, but she? Your other sister and my other soul Grave Silence, lovelier Than the three loveliest maidens, what of ...
Mr Kessler, you know, was in the army, And he drew six dollars a month as a pension, And stood ...
Let us abandon then our gardens and go home And sit in the sitting-room Shall the larkspur blossom or the ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
The room is full of you!-As I came in And closed the door behind me, all at once A something ...
They would have lynched me Had I not been secretly hurried away To the jail at Peoria. And yet I ...
furnished rooms, flats, a hayloft, a tent, motels, under a table, under an overturned rowboat, in a villa (briefly) but ...
Three jolly Farmers Once bet a pound Each dance the others would Off the ground. Out of their coats They ...
I. My face resembles your face less and less each day. When I was young no one mistook whose child ...
"Sweep thy faint strings, Musician, With thy long lean hand; Downward the starry tapers burn, Sinks soft the waning sand; ...
Far-fetched with tales of other worlds and ways, My skin well-oiled with wines of the Levant, I set my face ...
Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this, with eight stranded whales to look at; ...
Years, many parti-colour'd years, Some have crept on, and some have flown Since first before me fell those tears I ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
Tanagra! think not I forget Thy beautifully-storey'd streets; Be sure my memory bathes yet In clear Thermodon, and yet greets ...
The Year's twelve daughters had in turn gone by, Of measured pace tho' varying mien all twelve, Some froward, some ...
The happiest moment in a woman's life Is when she hears the turn of her lover's key In the lock, ...
There comes a time when the story turns into twenty different stories and soon after that he academy of shadows ...
When my father Said mein Fehler I thought it meant "I'm a failure" which was my error which is what ...
Believe me, dear patrons, I have wand'red too far, Without any compass, or planet or star; My dear native village ...
(1) Caressing my tender breasts, his left hand's on the steering wheel, and his right hand is firmly tucked away ...
Central Park: Water Fight, Flight, and Tears June 1 2001, N.Y. C., U.S.A. (1) From the five boroughs of N.Y.C., ...
Oh something just now must be happening there! That suddenly and quiveringly here, Amid the city's noises, I must think ...
At first you'll joy to see the playful snow, Like white moths trembling on the tropic air, Or waters of ...
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