Hymn of Futility (C J Dennis Poems)
Lord, Thou hast given unto us a land. In Thy beneficence Thou has ordainedThat we should hold a country ...
Lord, Thou hast given unto us a land. In Thy beneficence Thou has ordainedThat we should hold a country ...
STRANGERS! your eyes are on that valley fixedIntently, as we gaze on vacancy,When the mind's wings overspreadThe spirit-world of dreams.True, ...
The sun sets brightly — but a ruddier glowO'er Afric's heaven the flames of Carthage throw;Her walls have sunk, and ...
'My brother!' spake she to the sun; The kindred kisses of the starsWere hers; her feet were set upon The ...
When the war shall have ceased with its sorrow, Its hunger, and horror, and hell, In the ...
O, listen for a moment lads, and hear me tell my tale-how o'er the sea from England's shore I was ...
Break his spirit, until heWrite for popularity.If he thirst, bid him drinkFloods of sentimental ink;Then, with inspiration spent,Make him Poetry ...
now does our world descend the path to nothingness (cruel now cancels kind; friends turn to enemies) therefore lament,my dream ...
Because her body is a tender thing, Like powdered butterflies, that must remain Prideless, if any hand have brushed their ...
No priestly requiem is heard,Hushed is the voice of prayer,She lies in a dishonoured grave-The suicide lies there!And did no ...
Out of the poisonous East, Over a continent of blight, Like a maleficent Influence released From the most squalid cellerage ...
APENECK SWEENEY spreads his knees Letting his arms hang down to laugh, The zebra stripes along his jaw Swelling to ...
Three weeks gone and the combatants gone returning over the nightmare ground we found the place again, and found the ...
Feast on wine or fast on water And your honour shall stand sure, God Almighty's son and daughter He the ...
I My love, this is the bitterest, that thou Who art all truth and who dost love me now As ...
(In memoriam C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards obiit H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire July 7, 1896) ...
Eagle of Austerlitz! where were thy wings When far away upon a barbarous strand, In fight unequal, by an obscure ...
This English Thames is holier far than Rome, Those harebells like a sudden flush of sea Breaking across the woodland, ...
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap Left by the Holy Quest; and as he sat In hall ...
A pathetic tragedy I will relate, Concerning poor Fred. Marsden's fate, Who suffocated himself by the fumes of gas, On ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
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