Lost Illusions (Georgia Douglas Johnson Poems)
Oh, for the veils of my far away youth,Shielding my heart from the blaze of the truth,Why did I stray ...
Oh, for the veils of my far away youth,Shielding my heart from the blaze of the truth,Why did I stray ...
IOh, splendour of our joy and our delight,Woven of gold amid the silken air!See the dear house among its gables ...
A burning glass of burnished brass, The calm sea caught the noontide rays,And sunny slopes of golden grass And wastes ...
THE CYNDUS1Beneath th' triumphal blue, th' riotous day, Her silvern galley beats the black flood white, Whilst the long sillage ...
To the Spirit of her Lover. Wilt thou follow me into the wild? Wilt thou follow me over the ...
Deep trust in God-for that I still have sought Through all the grim doubts that bemock the ...
R.M.S. Lusitania. Sunk by German Submarine, 7th May, 1915 Long since their scattered bones are bleached and bare. Fishes have ...
Love, should I fear death most for you or me?Yet if you die, can I not follow you,Forcing the straits ...
Man of virtue has need;-into life with boldness he plunges, Entering with fortune more sure into the hazardous strife;But to ...
Melibæus. WElcome fair Nymphs, most welcome to this shade, Distemp'ring Heats do now the Plains invade: But you may sit, ...
While you walk the water's edge, turning over concepts I can't envision, the honking buoy serves notice that at any ...
In fear of the rich mouth I kissed the thin,-- Even that was a trap To snare me in. Even ...
We are thine, O Love, being in thee and made of thee, As théou, Léove, were the déep thought And ...
I There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came heavily and fell in floods; But now ...
Between the wave-ridge and the strand I let you forth in sight of land, Songs that with storm-crossed wings and ...
Man of virtue has need;-into life with boldness he plunges, Entering with fortune more sure into the hazardous strife; But ...
Tenuous and Precarious Were my guardians, Precarious and Tenuous, Two Romans. My father was Hazardous, Hazardous Dear old man, Three ...
There were faces to remember in the Valley of the Shadow, There were faces unregarded, there were faces to forget; ...
By what serene malevolence of names Had you the gift of yours, Theophilus? Not even a smeared young Cyclops at ...
Through frost-thick weather This witch sidles, fingers crooked, as if Caught in a hazardous medium that might Merely by its ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
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