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The Courtship Of Miles Standish

© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Thereupon answered the youth: "Indeed I do not condemn you;
Stouter hearts that a woman's have quailed in this terrible winter.
Yours is tender and trusting, and needs a stronger to lean on;
So I have come to you now, with an offer and proffer of marriage
Made by a good man and true, Miles Standish the Captain of Plymouth!"

Epochs

© Emma Lazarus

Thin summer rain on grass and bush and hedge,
Reddening the road and deepening the green
On wide, blurred lawn, and in close-tangled sedge;
Veiling in gray the landscape stretched between
These low broad meadows and the pale hills seen
But dimly on the far horizon's edge.

The Purgatory Of St. Patrick - Act III

© Denis Florence MacCarthy

LUIS. Oh, that name
Do not mention! do not kill me
By repeating what doth thrill me
To the centre of my frame
As with lightning. Yes, I know
That at length Polonia died.

The Appeal Of The Chorus

© Aristophanes

But now for the gentle reproaches he bore
On the part of his friends, for refraining before
To embrace the profession, embarking for life
In theatrical storms and poetical strife.

Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: XXIX

© Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

A glorious triumph. On that day of days
When, standing on the summit's utmost edge
Of my first mountain--top, I viewed the maze
Which I had travelled upwards, ledge on ledge,

Le Mendiant

© André Marie de Chénier

C'était quand le printemps a reverdi les prés.

La fille de Lycus, vierge aux cheveux dorés,

New Hampshire

© John Greenleaf Whittier

GOD bless New Hampshire! from her granite peaks
Once more the voice of Stark and Langdon speaks.
The long-bound vassal of the exulting South
For very shame her self-forged chain has broken;

Pharsalia - Book III: Massilia

© Marcus Annaeus Lucanus

Phoenicians first (if story be believed)
Dared to record in characters; for yet
Papyrus was not fashioned, and the priests
Of Memphis, carving symbols upon walls
Of mystic sense (in shape of beast or fowl)
Preserved the secrets of their magic art.

White CanoeA Legend Of Niagara Falls

© Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon

A CANTATA.
MINAHITA, Indian Maiden.
OREIKA, Her Friend.
TOLONGA, Minahitas Father.
DOLBREKA, Indian Chief.

The Wanderer From The Fold

© Emily Jane Brontë

How few, of all the hearts that loved,
Are grieving for thee now;
And why should mine to-night be moved
With such a sense of woe?

How The Women Went From Dover

© John Greenleaf Whittier

THE tossing spray of Cocheco's fall
Hardened to ice on its rocky wall,
As through Dover town in the chill, gray dawn,
Three women passed, at the cart-tail drawn!

A Song of Honour

© Ralph Hodgson

I climbed a hill as light fell short,

And rooks came home in scramble sort,

A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634. (Comus)

© John Milton

The Scene changes to a stately palace, set out with all manner of
deliciousness: soft music, tables spread with all dainties. Comus
appears with his rabble, and the LADY set in an enchanted chair;
to
whom he offers his glass; which she puts by, and goes about to
rise.

The Saints Ascend To Heaven

© Michael Wigglesworth

The Saints behold with courage bold, and thankful wonderment.
To see all those that were their foes thus sent to punishment:
Then do they sing unto their King a Song of endless Praise:
They praise his Name, and do proclaim that just are all his ways.

Camp Followers

In the old wars of the world there were camp-followers,

Women of ancient sins who gave themselves for hire,

Penthesilea

II.
THE BATTLE

Black Tom

© Anonymous

Hunted by rebel master,
Over many a hill and glade,
Black Tom, with his wife and children,
Found his way to our brigade.

Metamorphoses: Book The Eleventh

© Ovid

The End of the Eleventh Book.

Translated into English verse under the direction of
Sir Samuel Garth by John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison,
William Congreve and other eminent hands