Festus – II (Philip James Bailey Poems)
From heaven, soul--like, to earth. It is sundown. MarkThe heart's state, empty and collapsed, the world'sVain pleasures leave us in, ...
From heaven, soul--like, to earth. It is sundown. MarkThe heart's state, empty and collapsed, the world'sVain pleasures leave us in, ...
Though some good folks may take it ill,As trifling with parsonic frill,Thus saith the Lord to Jim and Bill,In admonition ...
O Buddha, of the mystic smileAnd downcast, dreamful eyes,To whom unnumbered sacred shrinesAnd gilded statues rise,Whose fanes are filled with ...
Pindar, poet of the victories, fitted namesAnd legends into verses for the chorus to sing:Names recalled now only in the ...
CHILD of loud-throated War! the mountain StreamRoars in thy hearing; but thy hour of restIs come, and thou art silent ...
Brilliant as Lucifer, Son of the Morning,Rises this reincarnation of Mars!Youth at its apogee, precedent scorning,Genius ascending its path toward ...
Jewelled seaweed,Province of Sanuki:Is it your nature thatThe sight of you will never sate?Is it that your guardian godIs paramount?With ...
Watchword sublime of Rome's imperial sage,Tersest of synonyms for self-control,Paramount precept of the Stoic's age,Noblest of mottoes for the lofty ...
One paramount truthour society smothersin petty concernwith position and pelf:It isn't enoughto exasperate others;you've got to rememberto gladden yourself. (Piet ...
The Inammoration.ARGUMENT. O, DEUS, aut nullo caleat mihi Pectus ab Igne! Aut solo caleat Pectus ab Igne Tui! Languet ut ...
1660At last the long darkness of anarchy lifts, and the dawn o'er the grayIn rosy pulsation floods; the tremulous amber ...
Let's talk about love, that wonderful thing,Let's blend the scent of Venice with Paris in Spring,Let's gaze at that moon ...
My desk is cleared of the litter of ages; Before me glitter the fair white pages; My fountain pen is ...
A vision as of crowded city streets, With human life in endless overflow; Thunder of thoroughfares; trumpets that blow To ...
My wearied heart bade me farewell and left for the House of Fortune. As he reached that holy city which ...
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 ...
I-THE LURE No, no,-forget your Cricket and your Ant, For I shall never set my name to theirs That now ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
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