The Barren Fig-Tree (John Newton Poems)
The church a garden isIn which believers stand,Like ornamental treesPlanted by God's own hand:His Spirit waters all their roots,And every ...
The church a garden isIn which believers stand,Like ornamental treesPlanted by God's own hand:His Spirit waters all their roots,And every ...
You turn into a plant on the coasts of time.With a chalice of round skyand tunnel for traffic,you are the ...
In the eyes: dream. The brow as if it could feelsomething far off. Around the lips, a greatfreshness—seductive, though there ...
I see my years of forgetfulness like triumphant fields of poppies,My laziness a robe,While spectre-hours drift once again like dreams--Come ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
Still with impatient love Sabrina pines,And now to speak the fatal truth designs;Sooth'd by her own indulgent hopes, which traceA ...
THE night was thick and hazy When the 'Piccadilly Daisy' Carried down the crew and captain in the ...
Jove, be merciful to that unfortunate womanOr an ornamental death will be held to your debit,The time is come, the ...
It is not ornamental, the cost is not great,There are other things far more useful, yet truly I state,Though of ...
"A delicate young Negro stands With the reins of a horse clutched loosely in his hands; So delicate, indeed, that ...
Here in this spring, stars float along the void;Here in this ornamental winterDown pelts the naked weather;This summer buries a ...
A delicate young Negro stands With the reins of a horse clutched loosely in his hands; So delicate, indeed, that ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
Moonlight spills down vacant sills, illuminates an empty bed. Dreams lie in crates. One hand creates wan silver circles, left ...
Golden haired and golden hearted I would ever have you be, As you were when last we parted Smiling slow ...
This celestial seascape, with white herons got up as angels, flying high as they want and as far as they ...
I Many ingenious lovely things are gone That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude, protected from the circle of the ...
1 COME closer to me; Push close, my lovers, and take the best I possess; Yield closer and closer, and ...
Flamingo silk. New ruff, the ivory ghost of a halter. Chestnut curls, * commas behind the ear. "Taller, by half ...
Ornamental clouds compose an evening love song; a road leaves evasively. The new moon begins a new chapter of our ...
All ye tourists who wish to be away From the crowded city for a brief holiday; The town of Nairn ...
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