Wild Flowers (Hermann Ferdinand Freiligrath Poems)
Alone I strode where the broad Rhine flowed, The hedge with roses was covered, And wondrous rare through all the air The scent ...
Alone I strode where the broad Rhine flowed, The hedge with roses was covered, And wondrous rare through all the air The scent ...
In spite of his imposing plea,A freeman whom the truth makes freeIs often fairly up a tree,And marvels why it ...
When real Blessings are to Men deny'd,With airy Hopes they gratify their Pride;To every Wretch this Privilege extends,However void of ...
I've joined the orders that came our way,- Been sort of a "jiner," as one would say, -And I've bucked ...
She wasn't the least bit pretty, And only the least bit gay; And she walked with a firm elastic tread, In a business-like ...
Awake, my sluggish soul! from sleep awake,And with a heart sincere attempt to sing(In the most daring flight thy thoughts ...
They roused him with muffins—they roused him with ice—They roused him with mustard and cress—They roused him with jam and ...
BRAVE singer of the coming time,Sweet minstrel of the joyous present,Crowned with the noblest wreath of rhyme,The holly-leaf of Ayrshire's ...
A little grey curl from my father's head I find unburned on the hearth, And give it a place in my diary ...
What gay assemblage greets my wondering sight!What scene of splendor--conjured here to-night!What voices murmur, and what glances gleam!Sure 'tis some ...
"MAN wants but little here below,Nor wants that little long."'Tis not with me exactly so;But 'tis so in the song.My ...
Thee, Mary! first 'twas lightning struck, And then a water-vat half drowned; But I can't think 'twas mere blind luck Twice left for ...
It's hard what poor fowk mun put up wi'! What insults an snubs they've to tak!What bowin an scrapin's expected, If a ...
It has a "point" of neither sex But comes in guise of both,And, doubly dangerous complex, It is a thing to loathe-A ...
Far up the lonely mountain-sideMy wandering footsteps led;The moss lay thick beneath my feet,The pine sighed overhead.The trace of a ...
Aw've a treasure yo'd laff if yo saw, But its mem'ries are dear to mi heart;For aw've oft seen it stuck ...
Englishmen up! make ready your rifles! Who can tell now what a day may bring forth?Patch up all quarrels, and stick ...
ABOVE him spreads the purple sky, Beneath him spreads the ether sea,And everywhere about him lie Dim ports of space, and mystery.Ho, ...
An alarm is sounding through the land That tells of a stronger foe Than that which marched on Lexington, To strike a fatal ...
This world was made of fragments Each separate from the other, Yet in such close relation As to indicate a brother. Each atom of ...
Of war and love some poets sing, And some of fame and glory, But few there are a tribute bring To him whose ...
O Mother Race! to thee I bringThis pledge of faith unwavering, This tribute to thy glory.I know the pangs which thou ...
"Sup up thi gill, owd Peter Prime, Tha'st have a pint wi' me;It's worth a bob at onny time To have a ...
"In the fight at Brandywine, Black Samson, a giant negro armed with a scythe, sweeps his way through the red ranks...." ...
Of sentences that stir my bile, Of phrases I detest, There's one beyond all others vile; "He did it for the best." Of course he did: I don't suppose, Nor can you think I should, The man's among my deadliest foes, Or is not fairly good. Of course he did it for the best: What should he do it for? But did he do it? that's the test: I ask to know no more. Alas! he did: and here am I, Quite ruined, half disgraced; And you can really ask me why My wrath is not effaced: And there is he, good worthy man, With self-esteem possessed, Still saying, as of course he can, "I did it for the best." No evil deed was ever done, Or honest man withstood, Since first this weary world begun, Except for someone's good. And can it signify to me Whose good he did it for? Mine was it? thus 'twas wont to be, And will be ever more. When inoffensive people plant A dagger in your breast, Your good is what they really want: They do it for the best. (James Kenneth Stephen)
'Tis William Street, the link street, That seems to stand alone;'Tis William Street, the vague street, With terraces of stone:That starts with ...
Achilles came from Homer's Jove-like brain, Pavilioned 'mid his ships where Thetis trod; But he whose image dominates this plain Came from the ...
WE'RE told, that once a cobbler, BLASE by name;A wife had got, whose charms so high in fame;But as it ...
Ov whooalsum food aw get mi fill,--Ov drink aw seldom want a gill;Aw've clooas to shield me free throo harm,Should ...
Volume.THIS little book claims patronage,Though merits are but few;O save it from the Author's fate. Till twice you read it through.For ...
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