Enigma XXXIV. (Elizabeth Hitchener Poems)
THE author of some political letters, Who took a feigned name,And under this mask traduces his betters, Without ...
THE author of some political letters, Who took a feigned name,And under this mask traduces his betters, Without ...
Oh bard! what though upon thy mortal eyes There fell no glimmering ray of earthly light, And the deep shadow ...
Yet what were Love if man remains unfree,And woman's sunshine sordid merchandise:If children's Hope is blasted ere they seeIts shoots ...
(To Dr. L. A. Martinet, editor of the New Orleans Crusader.)O thou who never harbored fear,Who ever scorned her visage ...
I thought there would be a grave beauty, a sunset splendour In being the last of one's kind: a topmost ...
Lead us, Evolution, lead us Up the future's endless stair; Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us. For stagnation ...
Our Fathers in a wondrous age, Ere yet the Earth was small, Ensured to us a heritage, And doubted not ...
O fountain of Bandusia, Whence crystal waters flow, With garlands gay and wine I'll pay The sacrifice I owe; A ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
I Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
October. Here in this dank, unfamiliar kitchen I study my father's embarrassed young man's face. Sheepish grin, he holds in ...
Every month or so, Sundays, we walked the line, The limit and the boundary. Past the sweet gum Superb above ...
The Sun, who never stops to dine, Two hours had pass'd the mid-way line, And driving at his usual rate, ...
For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. For there be ...
YE learned sisters, which have oftentimes Beene to me ayding, others to adorne, Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull ...
THe famous warriors of the anticke world, Vsed Trophees to erect in stately wize: in which they would the records ...
And ye high heauens, the temple of the gods, In which a thousand torches flaming bright Doe burne, that to ...
Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest Now is the time that face should form another; Whose ...
Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest Now is the time that face should form another; Whose ...
Then let not winter's ragged hand deface In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd: Make sweet some vial; treasure ...
Let the bird of loudest lay, On the sole Arabian tree, Herald sad and trumpet be, To whose sound chaste ...
Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest Now is the time that face should form another, Whose ...
Then let not winter's ragged hand deface In thee thy summer ere thou be distilled. Make sweet some vial; treasure ...
Take it away, and swallow it yourself. Ha! Look you, there's a rat. Last night there were a dozen on ...
I CANNOT hold, for though to write were rude, Yet to be silent were Ingratitude, And Folly too; for if ...
My most respected comrades of posterity! Rummaging among these days' petrified crap, exploring the twilight of our times, you, possibly, ...
'Twas in the year of 1857 and on the 14th of September That the Sepoy rebels at Delhi were forced ...
Good people of Dundee, your voices raise, And to Miss Baxter give great praise; Rejoice and sing and dance with ...
'Twas on the 20th of November, and in the year of 1897, That the cheers of the Gordon Highlanders ascended ...
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