THE SLAVE IN THE DISMAL SWAMP (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
In dark fens of the Dismal Swamp The hunted Negro lay; He saw the fire of the midnight camp, And ...
In dark fens of the Dismal Swamp The hunted Negro lay; He saw the fire of the midnight camp, And ...
1 When all the world is young, lad, 2 And all the trees are green; 3 And every goose a ...
When I am tired of earnest men, Intense and keen and sharp and clever, Pursuing fame with brush or pen ...
More than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi, an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after ...
They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you ...
The eldest son bestrides him, And the pretty daughter rides him, And I meet him oft o' mornings on the ...
I was Lord of Cities very sumptuously builded. Seven roaring Cities paid me tribute from far. Ivory their outposts were--the ...
(A. D. 1066) I followed my Duke ere I was a lover, To take from England fief and fee; But ...
If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet, Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the ...
There dwells a wife by the Northern Gate, And a wealthy wife is she; She breeds a breed o' rovin' ...
Er-Heb beyond the Hills of Ao-Safai Bears witness to the truth, and Ao-Safai Hath told the men of Gorukh. Thence ...
By the Laws of the Family Circle 'tis written in letters of brass That only a Colonel from Chatham can ...
Twelve hundred million men are spread About this Earth, and I and You Wonder, when You and I are dead, ...
The King has called for priest and cup, The King has taken spur and blade To dub True Thomas a ...
What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey ...
Imprimis he was "broke." Thereafter left His Regiment and, later, took to drink; Then, having lost the balance of his ...
1892 The freed dove flew to the Rajah's tower-- Fled from the slaughter of Moslem kings-- And the thorns have ...
When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold, Our father Adam sat under the ...
I. If It be pleasant to look on, stalled in the packed serai, Does not the Young Man try Its ...
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently ...
One moment bid the horses wait, Since tiffin is not laid till three, Below the upward path and straight You ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
to a friend No! those days are gone away And their hours are old and gray, And their minutes buried ...
A delicate young Negro stands With the reins of a horse clutched loosely in his hands; So delicate, indeed, that ...
Hey, sparrow! out of the way, Horse is coming. (Kobayashi Issa)
This is for Elsa, also known as Liz, an ample-bosomed gospel singer: five discrete malignancies in one full breast. This ...
In this evil year, autumn comes early... I walk by night in the field, alone, the rain clatters, The wind ...
Robin Hood's mother, these twelve years now, Has been gone from her earthly home; And Robin has paid, he scarce ...
O Sacred Providence, who from end to end Strongly and sweetly movest! shall I write, And not of thee, through ...
"Man wants but little here below." LITTLE I ask; my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone, ...
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