The Rock (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Here the inscrutable purpose of my God Set me, to be to men a thing of hate,Watching the way where ...
Here the inscrutable purpose of my God Set me, to be to men a thing of hate,Watching the way where ...
EVENING and quiet: a bird trills in the poplar trees behind the house with the dark green door across the ...
The skies are brass and the plains are bare, Death and ruin are everywhere -- And all that is left ...
Ah, well! but the case seems hopeless, and the pen might write in vain; The people gabble of old things ...
To the City of Bombay The Cities are full of pride, Challenging each to each -- This from her mountain-side, ...
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks ...
Above the portico a flag-staff, bearing the Union Jack, remained fluttering in the flames for some time, but ultimately when ...
To the City of Bombay The Cities are full of pride, Challenging each to each -- This from her mountain-side, ...
For things we never mention, For Art misunderstood -- For excellent intention That did not turn to good; From ancient ...
The words of the screen "steamers for lunch, foggy day on the ocean" so much cascading memory flooding over me, ...
A foggy day on the ocean, my feet in the warm surf, feeling the water lapping, the movement of the ...
1 A CALIFORNIA song! A prophecy and indirection-a thought impalpable, to breathe, as air; A chorus of dryads, fading, departing-or ...
1 A SONG of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms-a ...
1 AFTER all, not to create only, or found only, But to bring, perhaps from afar, what is already founded, ...
1 O TO make the most jubilant poem! Even to set off these, and merge with these, the carols of ...
1 FLOOD-TIDE below me! I watch you face to face; Clouds of the west! sun there half an hour high! ...
1 STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands-lover ...
'Twas in the year of 1888, and on July the 14th day, That an alarming accident occurred in the River ...
As I stood upon London Bridge and viewed the mighty throng Of thousands of people in cabs and 'busses rapidly ...
Beautiful Loch Katrine in all thy majesty so grand, Oh! how charming and fascinating is thy silver strand! Thou certainly ...
ALL day they loitered by the resting ships, Telling their beauties over, taking stock; At night the verdict left my ...
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