On My Dreaming, (Mary Abel Clinckett Poems)
That I was in the company of Pope, in hishouse at Twickenham.1.SPIRITS of Air! that float on silvery wings,Throughout the ...
That I was in the company of Pope, in hishouse at Twickenham.1.SPIRITS of Air! that float on silvery wings,Throughout the ...
The little quids, the million quids,The everywhere, everything, always quids,The atoms of the Monoton-Each turned three essences where it stoodAnd ...
"Hats off" in the crowd. "Present arms" in the line!Let the standards all bow, and the sabres incline —Roll drums, ...
TAKE the harp, but very softly for our brother touch the strings:Wind and wood shall help to wail him, waves ...
Do not tie my wings, Says the honey-bee; Do not bind my wings, Leave them glad and free. If I fly abroad, If I keep ...
1 Strange wanderer out of the deeps,2 Whence, journeying, come you?3 From what far, unsunned sleeps4 Did fate foredoom you,5 ...
Come all you friends and critics, And listen to my song,A word I will say to you, It will not take me ...
IT IS New Year's Day and I rise to state that here on the Sydney sideThe Bards have commenced to ...
Not in a climate near the sunDid the cloud with its trailing fringes float,Whence, white as the down of an ...
A life that spanned less than 40 years but this man has left an indelible mark on the world of ...
"How many times and oft" has the sweet, sweet word been sung insong and told in story. And he sang ...
As when a beauteous nymph decays,We say she's past her dancing days;So poets lose their feet by time,And can no ...
I reade in Poets faigned bookes,That wise Vlysses wandring came,Where Circes through her fawning lookes,Did worke his men a spightfull ...
Oh! do not break the Thulian lyre's rude strings;Nor clip the Pegasean poney's wings.MUCH honour'd Gentlemen,--AllowYour suppliant a word or ...
A RADIANCE in the midnight sky No white moon gave, nor yellow star;We thought its red glow mounted high Where fire and ...
I was sitting at the open window… in the morning, the early morning ofthe first of May.The dawn had not ...
when your mother can rise from her placeon the pew during the early service,early enough that the sun barely fills ...
THERE once was a time when, as old songs prove it,The earth was not round, but an endless plain;The sea ...
The unhappy man, who once has trailed a pen,Lives not to please himself, but other men;Is always drudging, wastes his ...
COME here, rekindle the old fire,This last night leave no lamp unlit!In later days we twain shall sit,Remembering the joys ...
I.Man's inhumanity to Man! Oh hideous tale to tell,—What cheek unblanch'd can calmly scan Those characters of hell?What pen, what poet, dares ...
Once more he tried, before he slept,to rule his ranks of words. They brokefrom his planned choir, lolled, slouched and ...
"MAXIMILIAN MARVELOUS," we called him for a joke; He used to pass us every day, but rarely ever spoke. The shoes he ...
From Ether's plains, where shines thy starry throne,Fancy, fair queen of song, on earth descend!To me thy potent spells, Enchantress, ...
THOUGH young no more, we still would dreamOf beauty's dear deluding wiles;The leagues of life to graybeards seemShorter than boyhood's ...
Nor gold, nor silver are the words set here,Nor rich-wrought chasing on design of art;But rugged relics of an unknown ...
OH poet, to my lone and swelling heartHow gently comes the message sent by thine;It speaks to me of all ...
-for John Berryrnan-Is dog eat dog out dere'-Big Business, Mr. Bones.You know what I'm doing now? I'm watching the CompletePoems ...
NAY, blame me not; I might have sparedYour patience many a trivial verse,Yet these my earlier welcome shared,So, let the ...
PHI BETA KAPPAWENDELL PHILLIPS, ORATOR; CHARLES GODFREY LELAND, POET1881"THE Dutch have taken Holland,"--so the schoolboys used to say;The Dutch have ...
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