Festus – XXXIII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
As in our sky sometimes a vaporous massLow down, shows thunder threatening; while by windsOf happier, if adverse wing fanned, ...
As in our sky sometimes a vaporous massLow down, shows thunder threatening; while by windsOf happier, if adverse wing fanned, ...
A dusty clearing in the scrubs Of barren, western lands-Where, out of sight, or sign of hope The wretched school-house stands;A roof ...
It was heardThey took him to the morgue.Last night in the February darkWhen the crescent moon, five days toward full, ...
On you I think, while lingering far awayFrom all I love, till streams the eye with tears,--The fields are full ...
There stood a beggar asking alms By the cathedral gate,His face bore torture marks of life-- Pale, tired, blind--like fate.Thin, tired, pale ...
To every class we have a School assign'd,Rules for all ranks and food for every mind:Yet one there is, that ...
I. LINDSAY castle's jutted forth On the wild, old sounding sea,And a gallant race of the hardy North, ...
SILENT old gateway! whose two columns stand Like simple monuments on either hand; No trellised iron-work, with pleasant view Of ...
Three times the glorious god of light, and life, Along the sapphire pavement of the sky Careering,--through the immense of ...
NEVER again! When first that sentence fell From lips so loth the bitter truth to tell, Death seemed the balance ...
XCIXThere shines a leaf on every slender spray, The spring has found the violets in their nooks, There hides no ...
Enfolding essence-binding all in one,All motion and all life,-the near, the far,-August,-enthroned beyond or sight or sunAnd yet most intimate ...
Through vaults of pain, Enribbed and wrought with groins of ghastliness, I passed, and garish spectres moved my brain To ...
AMERICA always! Always our own feuillage! Always Florida's green peninsula! Always the priceless delta of Louisiana! Always the cotton-fields of ...
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round, At Camelot, high above the ...
Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur's Table Round, At Camelot, high above the ...
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