A boundless main (Ise Poems)
A boundless main,Storm-tossed, you distant from my bed,Now,Were I to sweep it, my sleeveMight float as does the sea-foam.(Ise)
A boundless main,Storm-tossed, you distant from my bed,Now,Were I to sweep it, my sleeveMight float as does the sea-foam.(Ise)
''Powers, erst of heaven; and, haply, yet again, As, with the years, we wiser, mightier grow, Thither, triumphant, destined to ...
Weary was I of Earth. My body lay, Its fires turned down and slaked to faintest heat.My soul went ...
Hearing how blessed Enda lived apart,Amid the sacred caves of Ara-mhor,And how beneath his eye, spread like a chart,Lay all ...
Young nursling of the Spring and southern mind!Thou comest like tenderness fostered by neglect, Or like new hope within a ...
I thought to live without true loveAll my life through to be at peace,But this heart, once again, would proveIts ...
The church was wrapped in darkness save for the alter-light,And save where near the marble rail six tapers glimmered brightO'er ...
We want to ask Canadians To treat us not as fools; We cannot learn to play the ...
O for a vision of the perfect light To shame the splendour of the morning star!O for a breath ...
In Nature's bright blossoms not always reposesThat strange subtle essence more rare than their bloom,Which lies in the hearts of ...
I'VE had a heap of fun and I've had a heap of sorrow, I've had a heap of pleasure and ...
Methought the unknown God we seek in vain Grew weary of the evil He had wrought-The piteous litanies of ...
Though life should comeWith all its marshalled honours, trump and drum,To proffer you the captaincy of someResounding exploit, that shall ...
And if I love you more than my own soul Then must you die and I shall never die Until ...
Farewell, farewell, to the western plain!I tightened my cinches and gathered my rein,Then eagerly mounted my good mustang,While full of ...
Not sweeter to the storm-tossed mariner Is glimpse of home, where wife and children wait To welcome him with kisses ...
Adown the land great rivers glide With lyric odes upon their lips, The sheltered bay with singing tide Forever woos ...
(Newdigate prize poem recited in the Sheldonian Theatre Oxford June 26th, 1878. To my friend George Fleming author of 'The ...
It's cruel cold on the water-front, silent and dark and drear; Only the black tide weltering, only the hissing snow; ...
In the storm-tossed Chilean sea lives the rosy conger, giant eel of snowy flesh. And in Chilean stewpots, along the ...
Mournfully to and fro, to and fro the trees are waving; What did you say, my dear? The rain-bruised leaves ...
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