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Jerusalem Delivered - Book 03 - part 02

© Torquato Tasso

XVI

Soon was the prey out of their hands recovered,

Portentous silence! Time keeps breathing past
Yet it continues! May this marvel last?
This wild weird silence in the midst of gloom
So manifestly big with latent doom?
Tingles the boding ear; and up the glens
Instinctive dread comes howling from the wild-dogs dens.

The Owl

© Alfred Tennyson

When cats run home and light is come,

And dew is cold upon the ground,

Genesis BK II

© Caedmon

ll. 82-91) The citizens of heaven, the home of glory, dwelt

again in concord. Strife was at an end among the angels, discord

Five Critcisms

© Alfred Noyes

Old Pantaloon, lean-witted, dour and rich,
After grim years of soul-destroying greed,
Weds Columbine, that April-blooded witch
"Too young" to know that gold was not her need.

An Elegy on a Lap-dog

© John Gay

Shock's fate I mourn; poor Shock is now no more,

Ye Muses mourn, ye chamber-maids deplore.

Vision Of Columbus - Book 5

© Joel Barlow

Columbus hail'd them with a father's smile,

Fruits of his cares and children of his toil;

Elegy -- Written in Spring

© Michael Bruce

'Tis past: the iron North has spent his rage;
Stern Winter now resigns the length'ning day;
The stormy howlings of the winds assuage,
And warm o'er ether western breezes play.

Sparrows Self-Domesticated In Trinity College, Cambridge

© William Cowper

None ever shared the social feast,

Or as an inmate or a guest,

Perennial Calendar (excerpt)

© William Forster

If now the sun extends his cheering beam,

And all the landscape casts a golden gleam

Planh For The Young English King

© Ezra Pound

If all the grief and woe and bitterness,

All dolour, ill and every evil chance

Fortunio. A Parable For The Times

© Paul Hamilton Hayne

WHO at the court of Astolf, the great King,
King of a realm of firs, and icy floes,
Cold bright fiords, and mountains capped with clouds.
Who there so loved and honored as the knight,

You And Yellow Air

I DREAM of an old kissing-time
And the flowered follies there;
In the dim place of cherry-trees,
Of you, and yellow air.

The Corsair

1.
'Deep in my soul that tender secret dwells,
Lonely and lost to light for evermore,
Save when to thine my heart responsive swells,
Then trembles into silence as before

Acis and Galatea

© John Gay

Air.
O ruddier than the cherry!
O sweeter than the berry!
O Nymph more bright
Than moonshine night,
Like kidlings blithe and merry!

Catterskill Falls

Midst greens and shades the Catterskill leaps,
From cliffs where the wood-flower clings;
All summer he moistens his verdant steeps
With the sweet light spray of the mountain springs;
And he shakes the woods on the mountain side,
When they drip with the rains of autumn-tide.