The Caliph’s Draught (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Upon a day in Ramadan- When sunset brought an end of fast, And in his station every man ...
Upon a day in Ramadan- When sunset brought an end of fast, And in his station every man ...
Where in dawnward SicilyGentle rivers wed the sea,Bitter life was given me.Gods that are most desolateFor their loveliness and stateBeing ...
DelilahThe sun has gone down, spreading wide on The sky-line one ray of red fire;Prepare the soft cushions ...
The Virgin speaks Draw back the starry curtains of the night, O Cherubim, and Seraphim! Pull back the purple curtains ...
My heart awakened to life in your valleys, Your waves played around me. And all of the fair ...
Cease smiling, Dear! a little while be sad, Here in the silence, under the wan moon; Sweet are thine ...
Saam-plants here summon us,I am your sister, your best one;I belong to you like this plot of groundThat I planted ...
My heart is like a cleft pomegranate Bleeding crimson seeds And dripping them on the ground. My heart gapes because ...
Cross-ribboned shoes; a muslin gown, High-waisted, girdled with bright blue; A straw poke bonnet which hid the frown She pluckered ...
Similiter et omnes revereantur Diaconos, ut mandatum Jesu Christi; et Episcopum, ut Jesum Christum, existentem filium Patris; Presbyteros autem, ut ...
When first the fiery-mantled sun His heavenly race begun to run; Round the earth and ocean blue, His children four ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
My limbs are wasted with a flame, My feet are sore with travelling, For, calling on my Lady's name, My ...
This English Thames is holier far than Rome, Those harebells like a sudden flush of sea Breaking across the woodland, ...
(To Marcel Schwob in friendship and in admiration) In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy ...
Her ivory hands on the ivory keys Strayed in a fitful fantasy, Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees ...
Each night he stands before the kitchen island, begins again from scratch: chocolate, cinnamon, nutmeg, he beats, he folds; keeps ...
I am Ebenezer Bleezer, I run BLEEZER'S ICE CREAM STORE, there are flavors in my freezer you have never seen ...
The artichoke of delicate heart erect in its battle-dress, builds its minimal cupola; keeps stark in its scallop of scales. ...
I MUSE among these silent fanes Whose spacious darkness guards your dust; Around me sleep the hoary plains That hold ...
The ArgumentA certain man having landed on an island in the Greek sea, found there a beautifuldamsel, whom he would ...
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