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PAG1-scull-alfric

XML   PDFDatabase of Ornament ALFRIC THERE were shouts that horribly clove the night air—the ring of axes on heavily smitten shields—every now and then…

PAG1-bridges-wind

XML   PDF THE SOUTH WIND I    The south wind rose at dusk of the winter day  The warm breath of the western sea  Circling wrapp’d the…

PAG1-wedmore-studies

XML   PDF GROUPED STUDIES Mildred.     Four various impulses do battle in the heart of Mildred—wage in that breast of hers their long, uncertain fight.…

PAG1-woods-sea

XML   PDF BY THE SEA THE mariners sleep by the sea.The wild wind comes up from the sea,It wails round the tower and it…

PAG1-johnson-incurable

XML   PDF INCURABLE MIST hung gray along the river, and upon the fields. From the cottage, little and lonely, shone candlelight, that looked sad…

PAG1-hemingway-fourquatrains

XML   PDF FOUR QUATRAINS YE cannot cheat the Master of your fate!   Proclaim the goal to which your feet are set,He who knows all is…

PAG1-powell-meinhold

XML   PDF Database of Ornament WILHELM MEINHOLD (27 Jan. 1797—Nov. 31, 1851) THE historic novel might be set aside as wholly inartistic and impossible…

PAG1-garnett-dust

XML   PDFDatabase of Ornament A HANDFUL OF DUST A TRAVELLER wandered by night amid the ruins of an immense forsaken palace. Through portals, of…

PAG1-simons-housman-tale

XML   PDFDatabase of Ornament ❧ TALE OF A NUN SMALL good cometh to me of making rhyme; so there be folk would have me…

PAG1-moore-duet

XML   PDF A DUET                                     ‘FLOWERS nodding gaily, scent in air,                                     Flowers posied, flowers in the hair,                                     Sleepy flowers, flowers bold to stare—’                                                      ‘Oh, pick me some.’                                     ‘Shells…