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• Evening

  Oh! thou bright-beaming god, the plains are thirsting,
  Thirsting for freshening dew, and man is pining;

  by Friedrich von Schiller 16 lines
• Eclogue the First Selim

  SCENE, *a Valley near Bagdat TIME, the Morning*
  `Ye Persian maids, attend your poet's lays,

  by William Taylor Collins 73 lines
• Pastor Cum

  You carry, even now doth Pallas show
  Her wrath, preparing buckler, car, and helm.

  by Adam Lindsay Gordon 36 lines
• The Two Swans (A Fairy Tale)

  Immortal Imogen, crown'd queen above
  The lilies of thy sex, vouchsafe to hear

  by Thomas Hood 399 lines
• Beowulf (Episode 09)

  ME thus often the evil monsters
  thronging threatened. With thrust of my sword,

  by Anonymous Olde English 103 lines
• Beowulf (Episode 03)

  THUS seethed unceasing the son of Healfdene
  with the woe of these days; not wisest men

  by Anonymous Olde English 69 lines
• Eclogue the Third Abra

  SCENE, a forest TIME, the Evening
  In Georgia's land, where Tefflis' towers are seen,

  by William Taylor Collins 76 lines
• The Ghost of Goshen

  Through Goshen Hollow, where hemlocks grow,
  Where rushing rills, with flash and flow,

  by Anonymous Americas 62 lines
• Beowulf (Episode 08)

  UNFERTH spake, the son of Ecglaf,
  who sat at the feet of the Scyldings' lord,

  by Anonymous Olde English 61 lines
• Eclogue the Fourth Agib

  SCENE, a Mountain in Circassia TIME, Midnight
  In fair Circassia, where, to love inclined,

  by William Taylor Collins 87 lines
• Galadriel's Song of Eldamar

  I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew:
  Of wind I sang, a wind there came and in the branches blew.

  by J R R Tolkien 13 lines
• Beowulf (Episode 05)

  STONE-BRIGHT the street: it showed the way
  to the crowd of clansmen. Corselets glistened

  by Anonymous Olde English 52 lines
• The Fall of Gil-galad

  Gil-galad was an Elven-king.
  Of him the harpers sadly sing:

  by J R R Tolkien 13 lines
• Beowulf (Episode 13)

  MANY at morning, as men have told me,
  warriors gathered the gift-hall round,

  by Anonymous Olde English 88 lines
• The Lay of Leithian

  Beren meets Lúthien
  'A! Lúthien, Tinúviel,

  by J R R Tolkien 78 lines
• The Fairy Shepherd

  When stars come gleaming one by one,
      And fold and farm are still,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 54 lines
• The Beautiful Land of Nod

  Come, cuddle your head on my shoulder, dear,
  Your head like the golden-rod,

  by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 54 lines
• The Lord of the Rings

  Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
  Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,

  by J R R Tolkien 8 lines
• Beowulf (Episode 14)

  HROTHGAR spake, -- to the hall he went,
  stood by the steps, the steep roof saw,

  by Anonymous Olde English 66 lines
• Sisina

  Imaginez Diane en galant équipage,
  Parcourant les forêts ou battant les halliers,

  by Charles Baudelaire 69 lines
• Fair Lady Goldberry

  O slender as a willow-wand! O clearer than clear water!
  O reed by the living pool! Fair River-daughter!

  by J R R Tolkien 3 lines
• Beowulf (Episode 10)

  THEN Hrothgar went with his hero-train,
  defence-of-Scyldings, forth from hall;

  by Anonymous Olde English 49 lines
• Legolas' Song of the Sea

  To the Sea, to the Sea! The white gulls are crying,
  The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying.

  by J R R Tolkien 11 lines
• Beowulf (Episode 11)

  THEN from the moorland, by misty crags,
  with God's wrath laden, Grendel came.

  by Anonymous Olde English 82 lines
• Beowulf (Episode 12)

  NOT in any wise would the earls'-defence
  suffer that slaughterous stranger to live,

  by Anonymous Olde English 46 lines, 1 comment
• Pixie-Led

  A breath on my forehead,
      A laugh in my ear,

  by Cicely Fox Smith 25 lines
• The Clinchiad : Complete

  See Clinchie to the hen approach,
  A scoundrel screen'd in gilded coach.

  by James Wilson Claudero 120 lines
• The Fortune-Favored

  Ah! happy he, upon whose birth each god
  Looks down in love, whose earliest sleep the bright

  by Friedrich von Schiller 94 lines
• Tom Bombadil's song

  Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!
  Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow!

  by J R R Tolkien 93 lines
• Winter comes to Nargothrond

  Winter comes to Nargothrond
  The summer slowly    in the sad forest

  by J R R Tolkien 9 lines

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