Poems about hued (21 Poems)
Autumnalia (Frances Fuller Victor Poems)
The crimson color lays As bright as beauty’s blush along the West; And a warm golden haze, Promising sheafs of ripe Autumnal days To crown the old year’s crest. Hangs in … Continue reading
The Lure Of The East (Burt Franklin Jenness Poems)
This is the spell of the Orient &mdashThe lure of the far, far East,A lure that is soft and luxuriant &mdashA bidding to sate of a feastThat is spread with the viands of pleasure,Replenished again and again;And music, each sensuous … Continue reading
Funeral Of Jacob (Archbishop William Alexander Poems)
And up the stream of days he seem’d to float,And twice seven years was toiling for his wife:And all his thought lay heaving like a boatOn the long swell of life.How statue-like that shape in shadows deep-Like one of marble … Continue reading
The Fall Of Nineveh. Prelude (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
In Vision are the centuries rolled back; The dead Past lives again. I breathe the air Of the young world; I see her giant sons. Like vast, high–towering fabrics in the sky Of summer’s evening, cloud on fiery cloud Thronging … Continue reading
Woes Of Georgia (David Guramishvili Poems)
The Turks, Ossetians, Lekis, Persians,Cherkez, Ghlighvis, Didos and KistsWere ever Georgia’s enemies,Assaulting her with blood-smeared fists.But soon at home domestic broils,Quarrels and feuds arose like mists.Brothers with brothers grappled. ThusDid trifles cause mighty contests.And as a cock that flies uponAnother … Continue reading
The Silvery San Juan. (Alfred Castner King Poems)
Wherever I wander, my spirit still dwells,In the silvery San Juan with its streamlet and dells;Whose mountainous summits, so rugged and high,With their pinnacles pierce the ethereal sky;Where the daisy, the rose, and the sweet columbineBlend their colors with those … Continue reading
The Prisoner (Burnett A. Ward Poems)
She entered to the courtroom, and took the prisoners’ stand;Her filmy gown was yellow as the primrose in her hand;Her limbs were hued of honey, her zoneless hair of gold,Her eyes were pools of reverie on stories yet untold. They … Continue reading
May In Umbria (Lyrics Of The Dawn) (Clinton Scollard Poems)
Say, O wander-lover, say,What is May in Umbria? Days that never dim nor darkle;Nights that spangle, nights that sparkle;Dawns that flame with burnished splendor;Eves that melt in raptures tender;Noons that glow with sapphire burning;Singing waters seaward yearning;Shouting weir and lilting … Continue reading
Meditations Of A Negro’s Mind, II (Charles Frederick White Poems)
Doth negro claim existence nowWho meek to unjust laws would bowWithout a protest on his brow,And call himself a man?Doth live a member of our raceWho dares not coward villains faceTo drive them from their hiding place,And thus for his … Continue reading
Heav’n Is Blue (Archbishop William Alexander Poems)
Wherefore his picture evermore was huedOver with colours, peradventure fine,But mixed not for a Heav’n-conceived design.A creed that like the sacred mountains stoodSunlighted depth or moonlit amplitude,Majestic, measureless, with trim tape-lineDid he attempt, and scorn’d, being undivine,The excess divine, the … Continue reading