The Poet Laberius (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
PART OF A PROLOGUE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN BY THE POET LABERIUSA ROMAN KNIGHT, WHOM CAESAR FORCED UPON THE STAGEPRESERVED BY ...
PART OF A PROLOGUE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN BY THE POET LABERIUSA ROMAN KNIGHT, WHOM CAESAR FORCED UPON THE STAGEPRESERVED BY ...
You are mistaken, he saidI am neither lecher nor womanizer.If I'm crazy about womenit's for the beautysome pitying devil threw ...
Bright matchless star, the honour of the sky,From whose clear shine heaven's vault hath all his light,I send these poems ...
All ye nations, pause a moment! listen to the Negro's voice,Coming up from all vocations where his life has made ...
IWe chose the faint chill morning, friend and friend,Pacing the twilight out beneath an oak,Soul calling soul to judgement; and ...
Fall fell: so that's it for the leaf poetry:some flurries have whitened the edges of roadsand lawns: time for that, ...
Come, essay a sprightly measure, Tuned to some light song of pleasure. Maidens, let your brows be crowned As we foot this merry ...
Laugh your best, O blazoned forests, Me ye shall not shift or shameWith your beauty: here among you Man hath set his ...
Ill skill'd my youthful hand to guideThe just descriptive pen;Else with a poet's noblest prideI'd draw the best of men.Ye ...
Genial poets, pink-facedearnest wits-you have given the worldsome choice morsels,gobbets of language presentedas one presents T-bone steakand Cherries Jubilee.Goodbye, goodbye,I ...
Art thou not sweet,Oh world, and glad to the inmost heart of thee! All creatures rejoice With one rapturous voice. As I, with ...
Lords, knights, and squires, the numerous band That wear the fair Miss Mary's fetters,Were summoned by her high command To show their ...
AN idle poet, dreaming in the sun,One given to much unhallowed vagrancyOf thought and step; who, when he comes to ...
What poets sang in Atlantis? Who can tellThe epics of Atlantis or their names?The sea hath its own murmurs, and ...
Pleasant as sound of falling rain amongThe summer leaves, and the sweet as after rainThe moist earth is when the ...
I'VE a humble little mottoThat is homely, though it's true, -Keep a-pluggin' away.It's a thing when I've an objectThat I ...
Between the Gardening and the CookeryComes the brief Poetry shelf;By the Nonesuch Donne, a thin anthologyOffers itself.Critical, and with nothing ...
ON HIS BRINGING ME FLOWERS FROM VAUCLUSE, ANDWHICH HE HAD PRESERVED BY MEANS OFAN INGENIOUS PROCESS IN THEIRORIGINAL BEAUTY. SWEET spoils ...
IFLOWERS are poetic, vegetables prose,-So it is said; yet music may there be,Though in a lower, less ecstatic key,In common ...
This normative hilllike all othersis transparently accessible,out thereand in the mind,not to be missedexcept in peril of one's life.Do not ...
At the desk where the boy sat, he sees the Chicago River.It raises its hand.It asks if metaphor should burn.He ...
"Airy dreamsSat for the picture, and the Poet's handImparting substance to an empty shade,Imposed a gay delirium for a truth."When ...
Renown'd for lyric and satiric lay, A two-fold poet, IShall on strong wing be upward borne Above the liquid sky;No more shall ...
Summer may come, in sun-blonde splendor,To reap the harvest that Springtime sows;And Fall lead in her old defender, Winter, all huddled ...
I heard from people after the shootings. PeopleI knew well or barely or not at all. Largelythe same message: how ...
Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sureOn thy supporters shoulders, left past cure,Thou dasht in ruine fall by a griefs ...
To Miss - -.Other poets may muse on thy beauties, and singOf thy birds, and thy flowers, and thy perfumes, ...
I"HERE are sweet peas, on tip-toe for a flight."How aptly that immortal poet singsOf these and of all other lovely ...
Struck with a Passion for unhappy Rowe,To whom so many finish'd Scenes we owe,I paid my Tribute to his mighty ...
'Still sits the schoolhouse by the road,A ragged beggar sunning,Around it still the sumacs growAnd blackberry vines are running.'A poet ...
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