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Fragments Of Ancient Poetry, Fragment V — James Macpherson	Autumn is dark on the mountains; grey mist rests on the hills. The whirlwind is heard on the heath. Dark rolls the river through the narrow plain. A tree...	7 views Rate it
Arms And The Man. - Heroes And Statesmen. — James Barron Hope	Of their great names I may record but few; He who beholds the Ocean white with sails And copies each confuses all the view, He paints too much - and...	7 views Rate it
When All Is Said — J D C Fellow	When all is said And all is done Beneath the Sun, And Man lies dead; When all the earth Is a cold grave, And no more brave Bright things have birth;...	7 views Rate it
An Eastern Legend — Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev	Who in Bagdad knows not Jaffar, the Sun of the Universe? One day, many years ago (he was yet a youth), Jaffar was walking in the environs of Bagdad. ...	7 views Rate it
Alms — Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev	Near a large town, along the broad highroad walked an old sick man. He tottered as he went; his old wasted legs, halting, dragging, stumbling, moved...	7 views Rate it
A Conversation — Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev	'Neither the Jungfrau nor the Finsteraarhorn has yet been trodden by the foot of man!' The topmost peaks of the Alps ... A whole chain of rugged...	7 views Rate it
Emer's Lament For Cuchulain — Augusta, Lady Gregory	And Emer took the head of Cuchulain in her hands, and she washed it clean, and put a silk cloth about it, and she held it to her breast, and she began to...	7 views Rate it
On Circuit. — Horace Smith	Two neighbours, fighting for a yard of land; Two witnesses, who lie on either hand; Two lawyers, issuing many writs and pleas; Two clerks, in a dark...	7 views Rate it
Isle Of Wight - Spring, 1891. — Horace Smith	I know not what the cause may be, Or whether there be one or many; But this year's Spring has seemed to me More exquisite than any. What happy days we...	7 views Rate it
Paraphrases From Scripture. ISAIAH xlix. 15. — Helen Maria Williams	Heaven speaks! Oh Nature listen and rejoice! Oh spread from pole to pole this gracious voice! "Say every breast of human frame, that proves "The boundless...	7 views Rate it
A Friend Indeed. — Hattie Howard	If every friend who meditates In soft, unspoken thought With winning courtesy and tact The doing of a kindly act To cheer some lonely lot, Were like the...	7 views Rate it
How Rumplestilz Held Out In Vain For A Bonus — Guy Wetmore Carryl	In Germany there lived an earl Who had a charming niece: And never gave the timid girl A single moment's peace! Whatever low and menial task His fancy...	7 views Rate it
Hymn To The Patriarchs. Or Of The Beginnings Of The Human Race. — Giacomo Leopardi	Illustrious fathers of the human race, Of you, the song of your afflicted sons Will chant the praise; of you, more dear, by far, Unto the Great Disposer...	7 views Rate it
A Woman's Voice — George William Russell	His head within my bosom lay, But yet his spirit slipped not through: I only felt the burning clay That withered for the cooling dew. It was but pity...	7 views Rate it
A Summer Night — George William Russell	Her mist of primroses within her breast Twilight hath folded up, and o'er the west, Seeking remoter valleys long hath gone, Not yet hath come her sister...	7 views Rate it
A Strong City — George Parsons Lathrop	For them that hope in Thee.... Thou shalt hide them in the secret of Thy face, from the disturbance of men. Thou shalt protect them in Thy tabernacle...	7 views Rate it
The Pagan — George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair	So here are you, and here am I, Where we may thank our gods to be; Above the earth, beneath the sky, Naked souls alive and free. The autumn wind goes...	7 views Rate it
The Elder Brother. — George Colman	Centrick, in London noise, and London follies, Proud Covent Garden blooms, in smoky glory; For chairmen, coffee-rooms, piazzas, dollies, Cabbages, and...	7 views Rate it
Appendix Of Poems Etc. In Schiller's Dramatic Works. — Friedrich Schiller	APPENDIX. The following variations appear in the first two verses of Hector's Farewell, as given in The Robbers, act ii. scene 2. ANDROMACHE....	7 views Rate it
A Sonnet. — Freeman Edwin Miller	We gentler grow by sorrow; not the breast That never crouches in the nights of tears, That never bends beneath the loads of years, Has sympathies that are...	7 views Rate it
Cambodunum — Frederic William Moorman	Cambodunum is the name of a Roman station, situated on a farm at Slack, on the hills above Huddersfield. Cambodunum, Cambodunum, how I love the...	7 views Rate it
Allison Gross — Frank Sidgwick	The Text is that of the Jamieson-Brown MS. The Story is one of the countless variations of the French 'Beauty and the Beast.' A modern Greek tale...	7 views Rate it
A Dialogue — Ella Wheeler Wilcox	MORTAL The world is full of selfishness and greed. Lord, I would lave its sin. SPIRIT Yea, mortal, earth of thy good help has need. Go cleanse...	7 views Rate it
A Ballad. — Edward Woodley Bowling	I. I cannot rest o' the night, Mother, For my heart is cold and wan: I fear the return o' light, Mother, Since my own true love is gone. O winsome aye...	7 views Rate it
A Tribute To Dunbar — Edward Smyth Jones	The sweetest singer once thou wast, but art no more; An elf thou wast of what thou now shalt be, Where thou art in realms of that celestial shore; There...	7 views Rate it