Beautiful Old Age (David Herbert Lawrence Poem)
It ought to be lovely to be old to be full of the peace that comes of experience and wrinkled ...
It ought to be lovely to be old to be full of the peace that comes of experience and wrinkled ...
Study in Whites Wax-white -- Floor, ceiling, walls. Ivory shadows Over the pavement Polished to cream surfaces By constant sweeping. ...
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
O month whose promise and fulfilment blend, And burst in one! it seems the earth can store In all her ...
I WILL be faithful to thee; aye, I will! And Death shall choose me with a wondering eye That he ...
Good Father!. 'Twas an eve in middle June, And war was waged anew By great Napoleon, who for years had ...
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...
Scene--A spacious drawing-room, with music-room adjoining. Katharine. What are the words ? Eliza. Ask our friend, the Improvisatore ; here ...
'Twas at that hour of beauty when the setting sun squandereth his cloudy bed with rosy hues, to flood his ...
How beautiful the earth is still, To thee - how full of happiness! How little fraught with real ill, Or ...
She ONLY to be twin elements of joy In this extravagance of Being, Love, Were our divided natures shaped in ...
1 AS a strong bird on pinions free, Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving, Such be the thought I'd think ...
Hark! like the sea in wrath the heavens assailing, Or like a brook through rocky basin wailing, Comes from below, ...
In the glad revels, in the happy fetes, When cheeks are flushed, and glasses gilt and pearled With the sweet ...
Before those cruel twins whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth, had hunted ...
Aunt Imogen was coming, and therefore The children-Jane, Sylvester, and Young George- Were eyes and ears; for there was only ...
There were faces to remember in the Valley of the Shadow, There were faces unregarded, there were faces to forget; ...
Why do you dig like long-clawed scavengers To touch the covered corpse of him that fled The uplands for the ...
A jade cup was broken because old age came too soon to give fulfilment to hopes; after drinking three cups ...
Love is enough: ho ye who seek saving, Go no further; come hither; there have been who have found it, ...
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