Peace (Eleanor Farjeon Poems)
I.I am as awful as my brother War,I am the sudden silence after clamour.I am the face that shows the ...
I.I am as awful as my brother War,I am the sudden silence after clamour.I am the face that shows the ...
Beachcomber on the shores of tearsLimning the gestures of defeatIn dancers, whores, and opera-stars -The lonely, lighted various streetYou sauntered ...
While free from Force the Press remains, Virtue and Freedom chear our Plains, And Learning Largesses bestows, And keeps unlicens'd ...
From far Alaska's snow-bound shore, Onward it moves like some dim phantom sweeping, And silently the yeasty waves o'erleaping;With glass ...
They bear no laurels on their sunless brows,Nor aught within their pale hands as they go;They look as men accustomed ...
One said: "I have seen, from cliffs of doom,The seven hells flame up in flowerLike a million upas trees that ...
Andromeda, by Perseus sav'd and wed, Hanker'd each day to see the Gorgon's head: Till o'er a fount he held ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
Now Time's Andromeda on this rock rude, With not her either beauty's equal or Her injury's, looks off by both ...
Daughter of Jove, relentless Power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The Bad affright, ...
I don't feel at home where I am, or where I spend time; only where, beyond counting, there's freedom and ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
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 ...
An imaginary composer.] I. Hist, but a word, fair and soft! Forth and be judged, Master Hugues! Answer the question ...
I. He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley's ...
This English Thames is holier far than Rome, Those harebells like a sudden flush of sea Breaking across the woodland, ...
Now warm with ministerial ire, Fierce sallied forth our loyal 'Squire, And on his striding steps attends His desperate clan ...
Day is the hero's shield, Achilles' field, The light days are the angels. We the seed. Against eternal light and ...
I Where the wings of a sunny Dome expand I saw a Banner in gladsome air- Starry, like Berenice's Hair- ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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