In the Wings (Bliss William Carman Poems)
THE play is Life; and this round earthThe narrow stage whereonWe act before an audienceOf actors dead and gone.There is ...
THE play is Life; and this round earthThe narrow stage whereonWe act before an audienceOf actors dead and gone.There is ...
I play the masquer to the world, I grant, I flash the spangles of my art before Its staring eyes; ...
IF death be final, what is life, with allIts lavish promises, its thwarted aims,Its lost ideals, its dishonored claims,Its uncompleted ...
Not the moon. A flower on the other side of the water. The water sweeps past in flood, dragging a ...
If the Led Striker call it a strike, Or the papers call it a war, They know not much what ...
For Margot Snow that fallest from heaven, bear me aloft on thy wings To the domes of the star-girdled Seven, ...
For Margot Snow that fallest from heaven, bear me aloft on thy wings To the domes of the star-girdled Seven, ...
Through my heart's palace Thoughts unnumbered throng; And there, most quiet and, as a child, most wise, High-throned you sit, ...
I'M like some king in whose corrupted veins Flows ag?d blood; who rules a land of rains; Who, young in ...
The jester walked in the garden: The garden had fallen still; He bade his soul rise upward And stand on ...
When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day ...
Time, the Jester, jeers at you; Your life's a fleeting breath; Your birthday's flimsy I.O.U. To that old devil, Death. ...
I'd rather be the Jester than the Minstrel of the King; I'd rather jangle cap and bells than twang the ...
I'm one of these haphazard chaps Who sit in cafes drinking; A most improper taste, perhaps, Yet pleasant, to my ...
As we the withered ferns By the roadway lying, Time, the jester, spurns All our prayers and prying -- All ...
I. THE VOICE OF THE MAN IMPATIENT WITH VISIONS AND UTOPIAS We find your soft Utopias as white As new-cut ...
Who now will praise the Wizard in the street With loyal songs, with humors grave and ...
I. EDWIN BOOTH An old actor at the Player's Club told me that Edwin Booth first impersonated Hamlet when a ...
The whole world on a raft! A King is here, The record of his grandeur but a smear. Is it ...
Swift, through some trap mine eyes have never found, Dim-panelled in the painted scene of Sleep, Thou, giant Harlequin of ...
NO man should stand before the moon To make sweet song thereon, With dandified importance, His sense of humor gone. ...
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