The Soul of Nippon: A Mediaeval Legend of Japan (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
At winter dusk upon the hillside cold,While shivering trees made moan,Went Hojo Tokiyori all alone.Free of his Regent robes and ...
At winter dusk upon the hillside cold,While shivering trees made moan,Went Hojo Tokiyori all alone.Free of his Regent robes and ...
This was a city once: women lived here;Their voices were low to their lovers, o'nights by the murmuring waters;Their hands ...
Where e'er the fetter has been broken, Where e'er the bondsman has been freed,Where e'er a sentence has been spoken In behalf ...
ALL mortals fain the time wou'd knowWhen Christ shall judge the world below ;But better 'tis they shou'd prepare,Ere they ...
I.Along Crane River's sunny slopesBlew warm the winds of May,And over Naumkeag's ancient oaksThe green outgrew the gray.The grass was ...
ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF CULLODENTake away that star and garter-Hide them from my aching sight:Neither king nor prince shall tempt ...
DEDICATED BY A CONTRIBUTOR TO THE COLLEGIAN,1830, TO THE EDITORS OF THE HARVARD ADVOCATE, 1876.'T WAS on the famous trotting-ground,The ...
Now, sporting muse, draw in the flowing reins,Leave the clear streams a while for sunny plains.Should you the various arms ...
A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LORD CLARETHANKS, my Lord, for your venison, for finer or fatterNever rang'd in a forest, or ...
Argument:As I was going to Saint IvesI met seven wives.Every wife had seven sacks;Every sack had seven cats;Every cat had ...
'It is the voice of years that are gone!they roll before me with all their deeds.'~OSSIANNewstead! fast-falling, once-resplendent dome! Religion's shrine! ...
Sir,As once a twelvemonth to the priest,Holy at Rome, here Antichrist,The Spanish king presents a jennetTo show his love, -- ...
The silver fangs of the mighty axe, Bit to the blood of our giant boles;It smote our breasts and smote our ...
I had not found the road too short,As once I had in days of youth,In that old forest of long ...
LONG time ago, from Amsterdam a vessel sailed away,-As fair a ship as ever flung aside the laughing spray.Upon the ...
COME hither, Evan Cameron!Come, stand beside my knee:I hear the river roaring downTowards the wintry sea.There 's shouting on the ...
A Legend of Schloss Forst, near MeranPROLOGUEOswald von Wolkenstein, the Last of the Minnesingers, loved a beautifulwoman, named Sabina, who ...
BUZZING, buzzing, buzzing, my golden-belted bees:My little son was seven years old-the mint-flower touched his knees; Yellow were his curly locks; Yellow ...
Soon as the twilight through the distant mistIn silver hemmings skirts the purple east,Ere yet the sun unveils his smiles ...
INTRODUCTIONThe theme is ancient as the hills, With all their prehistoric glory;But yet of Corney and his friend, We've often longed to tell ...
The mind of ev'ry man, alas!Is naturally vile and base,And thinks on nought, but what is bad,'Till it the second ...
Education.See Example. Parents and Children.Let no indecent Speech, or Action vile,Be known within the Walls where Youth is bred:Far, far ...
I.Oh for a field, my friend; oh for a field! I ask no more Than one plain field, shut in by hedgerows ...
What blooming banks, sweet Earn, or fairest Tay,Or Almond doth embrace! These many a dayWe haunted, where our pleasant pastoralsWe ...
Dulce est desipere in loco.Some Folks are drunk, yet do not know it:So might not Bacchus give You Law?Was it ...
The Raven croak'd as she sate at her meal,And the Old Woman knew what he said,And she grew pale at ...
We are accused of terrorism:if we defended rose and womanand the mighty verse...and the blueness of sky...A dominion... nothing left ...
Still unrelenting Pharaoh's Heart remain'd,And still the Tyrant in his Bosom reign'd;Moses in vain out--stretch'd the sacred Rod,And Israel groan'd ...
"DEAR RICHARD, come at once;" - so ran her letter;The letter of a married female friend:"She likes you both, and ...
SELL old Robin, do you say? Well, I reckon not today!I have let you have your way with the land,With ...
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