Irony (David Herbert Lawrence Poem)
Always, sweetheart, Carry into your room the blossoming boughs of cherry, Almond and apple and pear diffuse with light, that ...
Always, sweetheart, Carry into your room the blossoming boughs of cherry, Almond and apple and pear diffuse with light, that ...
The fountain bent and straightened itself In the night wind, Blowing like a flower. It gleamed and glittered, A tall ...
The stars hang thick in the apple tree, The south wind smells of the pungent sea, Gold tulip cups are ...
Thou yellow trumpeter of laggard Spring! Thou herald of rich Summer's myriad flowers! The climbing sun with new recovered powers ...
April had covered the hills With flickering yellows and reds, The sparkle and coolness of snow Was blown from the ...
January Janus am I; oldest of potentates; Forward I look, and backward, and below I count, as god of avenues ...
Three Kings came riding from far away, Melchior and Gaspar and Baltasar; Three Wise Men out of the East were ...
Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, ...
How shall she know the worship we would do her? The walls are high, and she is very far. How ...
Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home: At a touch sweet Pleasure melteth, Like to bubbles when ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book ...
My snowy eupatorium has dropped Its silver threads of petals in the night; No signal told its blossoming had stopped; ...
The moon rises. The red cubs rolling In the ferns by the rotten oak Stare over a marsh and a ...
I ENCHANTER of Erin, whose magic has bound us, Thy wand for one moment we fondly would claim, Entranced while ...
however foul the times or difficult the ways are through those personal morasses this change of age won't let a ...
I HAVE loved; for the first time with passion I rave! I then was the servant, but now am the ...
COVER thy spacious heavens, Zeus, With clouds of mist, And, like the boy who lops The thistles' heads, Disport with ...
And have we done with War at last? Well, we've been lucky devils both, And there's no need of pledge ...
A dove lived in a village. When it opened its mouth sweetness came out, sound like a silver light around ...
Then a hermit, who visited the city once a year, came forth and said, "Speak to us of Pleasure." And ...
From citron-bower be her bed, cut from branch of tree a-flower, fashioned for her maidenhead. From Lydian apples, sweet of ...
While yet we wait for spring, and from the dry And blackening east that so embitters March, Well-housed must watch ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Awake, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake! The darkness silvers away, the morn doth break, It leaps in the ...
Thou blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds ...
When beechen buds begin to swell, And woods the blue-bird's warble know, The yellow violet's modest bell Peeps from last-year's ...
Is this a time to be cloudy and sad, When our mother Nature laughs around; When even the deep blue ...
Among these latter busts we count by scores, Half-emperors and quarter-emperors, Each with his bay-leaf fillet, loose-thonged vest, Loricand low-browed ...
The quick sparks on the gorse bushes are leaping, Little jets of sunlight-texture imitating flame; Above them, exultant, the peewits ...
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