The Death Of Sir James, Lord Of Douglas (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
"Men may weill wyt, thouch nane thaim tell,How angry for sorow, and how fell,Is to tyne sic a Lord as ...
"Men may weill wyt, thouch nane thaim tell,How angry for sorow, and how fell,Is to tyne sic a Lord as ...
A CHRISTIAN! going, gone!Who bids for God's own image? for his grace,Which that poor victim of the market-placeHath in her ...
On Riding Alone by Moonlight over the Blue Mountains, whenReturning from Bathurst. - June, 1826.WHILE the bright moon ascends the ...
You, the brutal-hearted sky-scraping mountain tribes!Lamb and horseflesh - is all your menu describes;Long beards and handcrafted rugs, your loud ...
THE Monarchs of Europe, who prattle of peace,Shall cease, from this night, to calumniate Greece,The Moslems repent that they roused ...
The Warrior Ertogruhl,Sheik of his tribe of men who dare,Started a gray wolf in the morning cool,And on the summit ...
Is it the palm, the cocoa-palm,On the Indian Sea, by the isles of balm?Or is it a ship in the ...
Now the third and fatal conflict for the Persian throne was done,And the Moslem's fiery valor had the crowning victory ...
The vicious are vicious, while yet in the womb of their mothers;And vile and vicious are they, when their mothers ...
'Sublime tobacco ! which from east to westCheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest;Which on the Moslem's ottoman dividesHis ...
I wept until my tears were dryI prayed until the candles flickeredI knelt until the floor creakedI asked about Mohammed ...
Spain! You are the trustee of the Muslimblood:In my eyes you are sanctified like the Harem.Prints of prostration lie hidden ...
LANGUIDLY the night-wind blowethFrom the gardens round,Where the clear Barrada flowethWith a lulling sound.Not the lute-note's sweet shiverCan such music ...
Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not HinduBuddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religionor cultural system. I am not from ...
Wonder,A garden among the flames!My heart can take on any form:A meadow for gazelles,A cloister for monks,For the idols, sacred ...
Fair land! of chivalry the old domain,Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain!Though not for thee with classic shores ...
Heroes of elder days! untaught to yield,Who bled for Spain on many an ancient field;Ye, that around the oaken cross ...
Courage was cast about her like a dressOf solemn comeliness,A gathered mind and an untroubled faceDid give her dangers grace. ...
What holy rites Mohammed's laws ordain,What various duties bind his faithful train,—What pious zeal his scatter'd tribes unitesIn fix'd observance ...
A tall brave man of gray three score,The sable columns rode before,The knightliest of the knightly throng,The bravest of the ...
Listen to the Poet's story Of an ancient bell,Freighted with its wreaths of glory, With its fate as well:On Alhambra's ...
If I sit in the dustFor lauding good wine,Ha, ha! it is just:So sits the vine!Abu Midjan sang as he ...
What deep wounds ever clos'd without a scar?The heart's bleed longest, and but heal to wearThat which disfigures it. ...
HOME of the Percy's high-born race,Home of their beautiful and brave,Alike their birth and burial place,Their cradle, and their grave!Still ...
Know, O dear readers, that the medicine of a disease is to remove theroot cause of that disease. Isa (Jesus ...
He had three sons and they, all three,When called, for the encampment left;So the poor father was bereftOf rest and ...
Translated From The German of Schiller."KNIGHT, with sister's love for brother, Dear to me thou art: Take this love, and ...
1230Unnamed, unknown:--his hands across his breast Set in sepulchral rest,In yon low cave-like niche the warrior lies, --A shrine within ...
Though I've travelled far in distant lands- Russia, Prussia and Runcorn Sands- Back to my hometown I feel I want ...
As I came down from Lebanon, Came winding, wandering slowly down Through mountain passes bleak and brown, The cloudless day ...
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