Music (Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke)
Music By Rainer Maria Rilke What play you, O Boy? Through the garden it stole Like wandering steps, like a whisper — then mute; What pla…
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Hymn (Poem by Edgar Allan Poe)
Hymn (translation from the Greek Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodius) By Edgar Allan Poe (1) Wreathed in myrtle, my sword I'll conceal, Like thos…
Singapore (Poem by Rudyard Kipling)
Singapore By Rudyard Kipling Hail, Mother! East and West must seek my aid Ere the spent gear shall dare the ports afar. The second doorway of th…
Beloved Name (Poem by Victor Hugo)
Beloved Name By Victor Hugo The lily's perfume pure, fame's crown of light, The latest murmur of departing day, Fond friendshi…
Lament (Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke)
Lament By Rainer Maria Rilke Oh! All things are long passed away and far. A light is shining but the distant star From which it still …
Blood and the Moon (Poem by William Butler Yeats)
Blood and the Moon (1) By William Butler Yeats Blessed be this place, More blessed still this tower; A bloody, arrogant power Rose out of the race U…
Poem on Life (Poem by Robert Burns)
Poem on Life Addressed to Colonel de Peyster, Dumfries, 1796 By Robert Burns My honoured colonel, deep I feel Your interest in the Poet’s weal; Ah! …
Big Bear the Indian Chief (Poem by James McIntyre)
Big Bear the Indian Chief By James McIntyre The following impromptu was given at a banquet to one of the captives of Fort Pit after he had related h…
A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears and Some Books (Poem by Robert Lee Frost)
A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears and Some Books By Robert Lee Frost Old Davis owned a solid mica mountain In Dalton that would some day make hi…