#English #XIXCentury #XXCentury
I have come forth alive from the l… Where the charm is strong as the t… Torture of wordless dance and wine… Palace hidden in palace, garden wi… Women veiled in the sun, or bare a…
Now that I kneel at the throne, O… Pity and pardon me. Much have I striven to sing the s… Brother of beast and tree; Yet when the stars catch me alone
Then Bernard smiled at me, that I… But I had gazed already; caught t… Faced the unfathomable ray of rays Which to itself and by itself is t… Then was my vision mightier than m…
“Ill fares the land, to hastening… Where Wealth accumulates and Men… So rang of old the noble voice in… O’er the Last Peasants wandering… Doom has reversed the riddle and t…
He sayeth there is no sin, and all… Swells round him into a world made… The midnight of his universe of sh… Is the vast shadow of his shameles… He blames all that begat him, gods…
Before the Roman came to Rye or o… The rolling English drunkard made… A reeling road, a rolling road, th… And after him the parson ran, the… A merry road, a mazy road, and suc…
I have never managed to lose my old conviction that travel narrows the mind. At least a man must make a double effort of moral humility and imaginative energy to prevent it from narrowi...
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us,
When the long grey lines came floo… We stood and drank of the last fre… They had led us back from the lost… And stilled us: and our gaping gun… The grey tribes flowed for ever fr…
Are they clinging to their crosses… F. E. Smith, Where the Breton boat-fleet tosse… Are they, Smith? Do they, fasting, trembling, bleed…
It is a commonplace that men are all agreed in using symbols, and all differ about the meaning of the symbols. It is obvious that a Russian republican might come to identify the eagle a...
ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his trib… By cautious birth-control and die… Mellow with learning lightly took… That marked him not with them that… And told the angel of the book and…
St George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon He drank a pint of English ale Out of an English flagon. For though he fast right readily
Why should we reck of hours that r… While we two ride together? The heavens rent from end to end Would be but windy weather, The strong stars shaken down in sp…
Happy, who like Ulysses or that l… Who raped the fleece, returning fu… With usage and the world’s wide re… With his own kin can wait the end… When shall I see, when shall I se…