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...nd mystic, with the colours which 
The setting sun reflected in my eyes. 

And there I lived amid voluptuous calms, 
In splendours of blue sky and wandering wave, 
Tended by many a naked, perfumed slave, 

Who fanned my languid brow with waving palms. 
They were my slaves--the only care they had 
To know what secret grief had made me sad....Read more of this...
by Baudelaire, Charles



...thens or for Rome. 
The sons of Boston resolute and brave 
The firm supporters of our injur'd rights, 
Shall lose their splendours in the brighter beams 
Of patriots fam'd and heroes yet unborn. 



ACASTO. 
'Tis but the morning of the world with us 
And Science yet but sheds her orient rays. 
I see the age the happy age roll on 
Bright with the splendours of her mid-day beams, 
I see a Homer and a Milton rise 
In all the pomp and majesty of song, 
Which gives immortal vigour...Read more of this...
by Brackenridge, Hugh Henry
...en yearned down, made effort to reach the earth,
As the earth had done her best, in my passion, to scale the sky:
Novel splendours burst forth, grew familiar and dwelt with mine,
Not a point nor peak but found and fixed its wandering star;
Meteor-moons, balls of blaze: and they did not pale nor pine,
For earth had attained to heaven, there was no more near nor far.

Nay more; for there wanted not who walked in the glare and glow,
Presences plain in the place; or, fresh from t...Read more of this...
by Browning, Robert
...bs, and passed to its eclipse.

And others came... Desires and Adorations,
Winged Persuasions and veiled Destinies,
Splendours, and Glooms, and glimmering Incarnations
Of hopes and fears, and twilight Phantasies;
And Sorrow, with her family of Sighs,
And Pleasure, blind with tears, led by the gleam
Of her own dying smile instead of eyes,
Came in slow pomp; -the moving pomp might seem
Like pageantry of mist on an autumnal stream.

All he had loved, and moulded into...Read more of this...
by Shelley, Percy Bysshe
...god-like Freedom bids each passion live, 
That truth may boast, or patriot virtue give; 
From her, the Arts enlighten'd splendours own, 
She guides the peasant­She adorns the throne; 
To mild Philanthropy extends her hand, 
Gives Truth pre-eminence, and Worth command; 
Her eye directs the path that leads to Fame, 
Lights Valour's torch, and trims the glorious flame; 
She scatters joy o'er Nature's endless scope, 
Gives strength to Reason­extacy to Hope; 
Tempers each pang Hum...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby



...ger eyes I greet the morn,
 Exultant as a boy,
Knowing that I am newly born
 To wonder and to joy.

And when the sunset splendours wane
 And ripe for rest am I,
Knowing that I will live again,
 Exultantly I die.

O that all Life were but a Day
 Sunny and sweet and sane!
And that at Even I might say:
 "I sleep to wake again."...Read more of this...
by Service, Robert William
...For sake of these two splendours do the wise
Set store on riches, & for these alone:
For these two glories only do they prize
Power & majesty of kingly throne:

Or this: to succour friendship in distress,
To comfort humble sorrow, nor despise
To cheer the joyless heart of weariness,
To guard & aid whom fortune doth oppress
That he to life’s glad kingdom be restor’d
(& t...Read more of this...
by Hafez,
...
 Gave each a guide to rule it: more nor less 
 Their light distributes. For the earth he gave 
 Like guide to rule its splendours. As we know 
 The heavenly lights move round us, and is spilt 
 Light here, and darkness yonder, so doth she 
 From man to man, from race and kindred take 
 Alternate wealth, or yield it. None may save 
 The spoil that she depriveth: none may flee 
 The bounty that she wills. No human wits 
 May hinder, nor may human lore reject 
 Her choice, that...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante
...inds such familiar sights 
More keenly tempting than new loveliness. 
The 'What has been' a moment seemed his own: 
The splendours, mysteries, dearer because known, 
Nor less divine: Love's inmost sacredness 
Called to him, 'Come!'--In his restraining start, 
Eyes nurtured to be looked at, scarce could see 
A wave of the great waves of Destiny 
Convulsed at a checked impulse of the heart....Read more of this...
by Meredith, George
...rted country, 
A wilful, lavish land 
All you who have not loved her, 
You will not understand 
though Earth holds many splendours, 
Wherever I may die, 
I know to what brown country 
My homing thoughts will fly....Read more of this...
by Mackeller, Dorothea
...ranian sea; 
And they, who bow to Him who trod 
The midnight waves of Galilee.

Sweet, sumptuous fables of Baghdad 
The splendours of your court recall, 
The torches of a Thousand Nights 
Blaze through a single festival; 
And Saki-singers down the streets, 
Pour for us, in a stream divine, 
From goblets of your love-ghazals 
The rapture of your Sufi wine.


Prince, where your radiant cities smile, 
Grim hills their sombre vigils keep, 
Your ancient forests hoard and hold 
The...Read more of this...
by Naidu, Sarojini
...emned 
For ever now to have their lot in pain-- 
Millions of Spirits for his fault amerced 
Of Heaven, and from eteranl splendours flung 
For his revolt--yet faithful how they stood, 
Their glory withered; as, when heaven's fire 
Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines, 
With singed top their stately growth, though bare, 
Stands on the blasted heath. He now prepared 
To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend 
From wing to wing, and half enclose him round 
With al...Read more of this...
by Milton, John
...ask,
To see a secret thing.

"The gates of heaven are fearful gates
Worse than the gates of hell;
Not I would break the splendours barred
Or seek to know the thing they guard,
Which is too good to tell.

"But for this earth most pitiful,
This little land I know,
If that which is for ever is,
Or if our hearts shall break with bliss,
Seeing the stranger go?

"When our last bow is broken, Queen,
And our last javelin cast,
Under some sad, green evening sky,
Holding a ruined cross...Read more of this...
by Chesterton, G K
...lked with looks profound,
And news much older than their ale went round.
Imagination fondly stoops to trace
The parlour splendours of that festive place:
The white-washed wall, the nicely sanded floor,
The varnished clock that clicked behind the door;
The chest contrived a double debt to pay,— 
A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day;
The pictures placed for ornament and use,
The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose;
The hearth, except when winter chilled the day,
Wit...Read more of this...
by Goldsmith, Oliver
...his humid Eye
Oft wander'd o'er the rich expanse below;
Oft trac'd the glow of vegetating Spring,
The full-blown Summer splendours, and the hue
Of tawny scenes Autumnal: Vineyards vast,
Clothing the upland scene, and spreading wide
The promised tide nectareous; while for him
The liquid lapse of the slow brook was seen
Flashing amid the trees, its silv'ry wave!
Far distant, the blue mist of waters rose
Veiling the ridgy outline, faintly grey,
Blended with clouds, and shutting ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby
...orlorn; than when the fated fair
Upon the bosom bright of silver Thames
Launches in all the lustre of brocade,
Amid the splendours of the laughing Sun.
The gay description palls upon the sense,
And coldly strikes the mind with feeble bliss.
Ye youths of Albion's beauty-blooming isle,
Whose brows have worn the wreath of luckless love,
Is there a pleasure like the pensive mood,
Whose magic wont to soothe your soften'd souls?
O tell how rapturous the joy, to melt
To Melody's ass...Read more of this...
by Warton, Thomas
...unted, and dreary,
The poor little Hovel was still, and secure;
And no robber e'er enter'd, or goblin or fairy,
For the splendours of pride had no charms to allure.

The Lord of the Castle, a proud, surly ruler,
Oft heard the low dwelling with sweet music ring:
For the old Dame that liv'd in the little Hut chearly,
Would sit at her wheel, and would merrily sing:
When with revels the Castle's great Hall was resounding,
The Old Dame was sleeping, not dreaming of fear;
And when ...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby
...trespass-chiding eye, 
Away we stole, and transient in a trice 
From what was left of faded woman-slough 
To sheathing splendours and the golden scale 
Of harness, issued in the sun, that now 
Leapt from the dewy shoulders of the Earth, 
And hit the Northern hills. Here Cyril met us. 
A little shy at first, but by and by 
We twain, with mutual pardon asked and given 
For stroke and song, resoldered peace, whereon 
Followed his tale. Amazed he fled away 
Through the dark land...Read more of this...
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...sleep? 
Arise and answer for thy children's sake! 


Thy Future calls thee with a manifold sound 
To crescent honours, splendours, victories vast; 
Waken, O slumbering Mother and be crowned, 
Who once wert empress of the sovereign Past....Read more of this...
by Naidu, Sarojini
...earthly mansion flown, 
Embrace THEE on thy STARRY THRONE. 

Sweet soother of the pensive breast, 
Come in thy softest splendours dress'd; 
Bring with thee, REASON, chastely mild; 
And CLASSIC TASTE­her loveliest child; 
And radiant FANCY'S offspring bright, 
Then bid them all their charms unite, 
My mind's wild rapture to inspire, 
With thy own SACRED, GENUINE FIRE. 

I ask no fierce terrific strain, 
That rends the breast with tort'ring pain, 
No frantic flight, no labour'...Read more of this...
by Robinson, Mary Darby

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