Here is one leaf reserved for me, From all thy sweet memorials free; And here my simple song might tell The feelings thou must guess so well. But could I thus, within thy mind, One little vacant corner find, Where no impression yet is seen, Where no memorial yet has been, O, it should be my sweetest care To write my name forever there!
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A májusi hold csupa láng ma, szivem, lámpást visz a földi bogárka, szivem; a bércek alatt száz út csalogat, mikor álom esőz a világra, szivem! Ébredj, tündöklik az ég, gyönyöröm, üdvünk sose volna elég, gyönyöröm, s mert napja rövid legjobb, ha kicsit meglopjuk utána az éjt, gyönyöröm! Már... |
GOOD reader, if you e’er have seen, When Phœbus hastens to his pillow, The mermaids with their tresses green Dancing upon the western billow; If you have seen at twilight dim, When the lone spirit’s vesper hymn Floats wild along the winding shore, The fairy train their... |
Mr. Orator PUFF had two tones in his voice, The one squeaking thus, and the other down so; In each sentence he uttered he gave you your choice, For one half was B alt, and the rest G below. O! O! Orator Puff, One voice for an orator ’s surely enough. But he still talked away, spite... |
Robert Emmet O, BREATHE not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonored his relics are laid; Sad, silent, and dark be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that falls on the grave o’er his head. But the night-dew that falls, though in silence it weeps, Shall brighten with... |
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From “The Fire-Worshippers” “HOW sweetly,” said the trembling maid, Of her own gentle voice afraid, So long had they in silence stood, Looking upon that moonlight flood,— “How sweetly does the moonbeam smile To-night upon yon leafy isle! Oft in my fancy’s wanderings, I ’ve wished that little... |
