Category: Poetry
the best joke in the world, at the same time expressing a wish that I should exhibit myself to the company. A waltz had just commenced, so what could I do but waltz. P. and I took our places. I knew that the attention of several people was attracted toward us, and two young la...
At the piping of all hands, When the judgment signal’s spread— When the islands and the land, And the seas give up their dead, And the south and the north shall come; When the s...
6. CHAPTER IV.I vowed that I would dedicate my powers To thee and thine: have I not kept the vow? With beating heart and streaming eyes, even now I call the phantoms of a thousand hours, Each...
5. CHAPTER III.Though each young flower had died, There was the root—strong, living not the less That all it yielded now was bitterness; Yet still such love as quits not misery’s side, Nor dro...
1. scene I had lately enacted at my room. She was delighted, and thought itthe best joke in the world, at the same time expressing a wish that I should exhibit myself to the company. A waltz had just commenced, so what could I do but waltz. P. and I to...
3. CHAPTER I.“——I know he doth deserve As much as may be yielded to a man: But nature never framed a woman’s heart Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice; Disdain and scorn hide sparkling in...
4. CHAPTER II.Yes,—maidens, fair or brown, Lofty or lowly. Light as the thistle down, As cypress holy— When poets whisper near, Go join the dancers; And turn a stony ear To all romancers. —JA...