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There is a charm in footing slow across a silent plain,Where patriot battle has been fought, where glory had the gain;There is a pleasure on the..

After dark vapors have oppress'd our plainsFor a long dreary season, comes a dayBorn of the gentle South, and clears awayFrom the sick heavens all..

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;Round many western islands have I beenWhich bards in fealty to..

MINUTES are flying swiftly, and as yetNothing unearthly has enticed my brainInto a delphic Labyrinth I would fainCatch an unmortal thought to pay the..

A FRAGMENT OF A TRAGEDYACT I.SCENE I. Field of Battle.Alarum. Enter King STEPHEN, Knights, and Soldiers.Stephen. If shame can on a soldier's..

Standing aloof in giant ignorance,Of thee I hear and of the Cyclades,As one who sits ashore and longs perchanceTo visit dolphin-coral in deep seas.So..

BEFORE he went to feed with owls and batsNebuchadnezzar had an ugly dream,Worse than an Hus'if's when she thinks her creamMade a Naumachia for mice..

Nymph of the downward smile and sidelong glance!In what diviner moments of the dayArt thou most lovely? -- when gone far astrayInto the labyrinths of..

The town, the churchyard, and the setting sun,The clouds, the trees, the rounded hills all seem,Though beautiful, cold- strange- as in a dreamI..

How many bards gild the lapses of time!A few of them have ever been the foodOf my delighted fancy,—I could broodOver their beauties, earthly, or..

Son of the old Moon-mountains African!Chief of the Pyramid and Crocodile!We call thee fruitful, and that very whileA desert fills our seeing's inward..

Now Morning from her orient chamber came,And her first footsteps touch'd a verdant hill;Crowning its lawny crest with amber flame,Silv'ring the..

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art --Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightAnd watching, with eternal lids apart,Like nature's..

Cat! who has pass'd thy grand climacteric,How many mice and rats hast in thy daysDestroy'd? How many tit-bits stolen? GazeWith those bright languid..

To-night I'll have my friar -- let me thinkAbout my room, -- I'll have it in the pink;It should be rich and sombre, and the moon,Just in its mid-life..

Mother of Hermes! and still youthful Maia!May I sing to theeAs thou wast hymned on the shores of Baiae?Or may I woo theeIn earlier Sicilian? or thy..

Two or three PosiesWith two or three simples--Two or three NosesWith two or three pimples--Two or three wise menAnd two or three ninny's--Two or..

1.In drear-nighted December,Too happy, happy tree,Thy branches ne'er rememberTheir green felicity:The north cannot undo themWith a sleety whistle..

Many the wonders I this day have seen:The sun, when first he kissed away the tearsThat filled the eyes of Morn;—the laurelled peersWho from the..

Chief of organic Numbers!Old Scholar of the Spheres!Thy spirit never slumbers,But rolls about our earsFor ever and for ever.O, what a mad..

1.O come Georgiana! the rose is full blown,The riches of Flora are lavishly strown,The air is all softness, and crystal the streams,The West is..

I.Haydon! forgive me that I cannot speakDefinitively of these mighty things;Forgive me, that I have not eagle's wings,That what I want I know not..

What though, for showing truth to flatter'd state,Kind Hunt was shut in prison, yet has he,In his immortal spirit, been as freeAs the sky-searching..

Riddle: A man buys a rope from a woman for $3.00 and hands the woman a $10 bill. The woman goes into the grocery store next door to get change. She..

Riddle: A hundred stones are placed, in a straight line, a yard distant from each other. How many yards must a person walk, who undertakes to pick..