Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 02 (Torquato Tasso Poems)
XIBut when the angry king discovered notWhat guilty hand this sacrilege had wrought,His ireful courage boiled in vengeance hotAgainst the ...
XIBut when the angry king discovered notWhat guilty hand this sacrilege had wrought,His ireful courage boiled in vengeance hotAgainst the ...
The fourteen centuries fall awayBetween us and the Afric saint,And at his side we urge, to-day,The immemorial quest and old ...
THEY who say the bush is dull are not so very far astray,For this eucalyptic cloisterdom is anything but gay;But ...
When Scaliger, whole years of labour past,Beheld his lexicon complete at lastAnd weary of his task, with wond'ring eyes,Saw, from ...
IOh, when I was a tiny boy,My days and nights were full of joy,My mates were blithe and kind!-No wonder ...
I. 1.For toils which patriots have endur'd,For treason quell'd and laws secur'd,In every nation Time displaysThe palm of honourable praise.Envy ...
Now I know when will come the last morning — when the Light no more scares away Night and Love ...
'TWAS three an' thirty year ago,I When I was ruther young, you know,I had my last an' only fightAbout a ...
The Captains sailed from all the World-from all the world and Spain;And each one for his country's ease, her glory ...
What sorrows in my soul, O God! arise,The vast perverseness of mankind to see?Shou'd any strive to lead them to ...
I do not come to weep above thy pall, And mourn the dying-out of noble powers,The poet's clearer eye should see, ...
Wild air, world-mothering air,Nestling me everywhere,That each eyelash or hairGirdles; goes home betwixtThe fleeciest, frailest-flixedSnowflake; that 's fairly mixedWith, riddles, ...
An honest man with noble mind, With heart sincere, true, and refined, Who lives for God and all mankind, Who cares for rich ...
I.Summer was dead and Autumn was expiring,And infant Winter laughed upon the landAll cloudlessly and cold;--when I, desiringMore in this ...
Ye virgins! fond to be admired,With mighty rage of conquest fired,And universal sway;Who heave th' uncover'd bosom high,And roll a ...
Have you ever heard of lynching in the great United States?'Tis an awful, awful story that the Negro man relates,How ...
O God, by whom all good is given!Thou Sire of light! thou King of heavenBehold, and list to my request,However ...
To-day, O martyred chief, beneath the sunWe would unveil thy form; to thee who wonTh' applause of nations for thy ...
Almighty God, beholding Man,Depryued of his blessednesse,)To looke with visage pale and wan,(By reason of his wretchednesse.)And knowing him in ...
THE heavens rejoice in motion ; why should IAbjure my so much loved variety,And not with many youth and love ...
I marked a rainbow in the north, What time the wild autumnal sun From his dark veil at noon looked forth, As glorying ...
(Odysseus before the House of Paris.)OD. About this wicked house ten yearsThe strife 'twixt Troy and Greece has surgedSince rifling Paris, ...
Of woman was I born, and man I am.I come to teach the greatest, yet the most meekOf all true ...
Last of the giants, in whose soul shone clear The sacred torch of greatness and of right, A stricken world, that cannot ...
ANTARCTIC isle! thy mountains riseAll dimly o'er the western main;But gladly I regale my eyesWith the bless'd sight of land ...
'Tis sweet, when, down the mighty main, the windsRoll up its waste of waters, from the landTo watch another's labouring ...
And now, while the dark vast earth shakes and rocksIn this wild dream-like snare of mortal shocks,How look (I muse) ...
Praisest Law, friend? We, too, love it much as they that love it best;'Tis the deep, august foundation, whereon Peace ...
Yea, this is he, whose name is synonym Of all that's noble, though but lowly born; Who took command upon a stormy ...
Obedience to the seasons' marshall-rod,That is a law of God,Here beauty passes with her gorgeous train,On paths that range from ...
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