London Voluntaries IV: Out of the Poisonous East (William Ernest Henley Poem)
Out of the poisonous East, Over a continent of blight, Like a maleficent Influence released From the most squalid cellerage ...
Out of the poisonous East, Over a continent of blight, Like a maleficent Influence released From the most squalid cellerage ...
Full of rebellion, I would die, Or fight, or travel, or deny That thou has aught to do with me. ...
Through darkness and traffic, I start each day; On the miles to work, I start to pray. ***** I talk ...
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
A Peevish Fellow laid his Head On Pillows, stuff'd with Down; But was no sooner warm in Bed, With hopes ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
THE worm, the rich worm, has a noble domain In the field that is stored with its millions of slain ...
Dear Lord! accept a sinful heart, Which of itself complains, And mourns, with much and frequent smart, The evil it ...
How bless'd Thy creature is, O God, When with a single eye, He views the lustre of Thy Word, The ...
'The mist is resting on the hill; The smoke is hanging in the air; The very clouds are standing still: ...
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
Oh! did those eyes, instead of fire, With bright, but mild affection shine: Though they might kindle less desire, Love, ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
My soul is dark - Oh! quickly string The harp I yet can brook to hear; And let thy gentle ...
Acacia, burnt myrrh, velvet, pricky stings. â?"I'm not so young but not so very old, said screwed-up lovely 23. A ...
Would that the structure brave, the manifold music I build, Bidding my organ obey, calling its keys to their work, ...
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was ...
Vanity, saith the preacher, vanity! Draw round my bed: is Anselm keeping back? Nephews -- sons mine -- ah God, ...
THEIR groves o' sweet myrtle let Foreign Lands reckon, Where bright-beaming summers exalt the perfume; Far dearer to me yon ...
THOU whom chance may hither lead, Be thou clad in russet weed, Be thou deckt in silken stole, Grave these ...
Thou fair hair'd angel of the evening, Now, while the sun rests on the mountains light, Thy bright torch of ...
We real cool. We Left School. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz ...
The photographic chamber of the eye records bare painted walls, while an electric light lays the chromium nerves of plumbing ...
The chorus frogs in the big lagoon Would sing their songs to the silvery moon. Tenor singers were out of ...
Out in the grey cheerless chill of the morning light, Out on the track where the night shades still lurk, ...
Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood; Blue with all ...
PART I O! nothing earthly save the ray (Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty's eye, As in those gardens where ...
About the Shark, phlegmatical one, Pale sot of the Maldive sea, The sleek little pilot-fish, azure and slim, How alert ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
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