Joy (Emile Verhaeren Poems)
O splendid, spacious day, irradiateWith flaming dawns, when earth shows yet more fairHer ardent beauty, proud, without alloy;And wakening life ...
O splendid, spacious day, irradiateWith flaming dawns, when earth shows yet more fairHer ardent beauty, proud, without alloy;And wakening life ...
LONG ere I knew thee-years of loveless days- A Shape would gather from my dreams and pourThe soul-sweet influence ...
FORTH to the fight! then shining sword of song! Sing, sing the toil, that makes the toiler strong. Sing, how ...
GARDENING is hardeningIn every way you view it;It makes a fellow hustle,And it strengthens every muscle;It knots up many a ...
Like some school master, kind in being stern,Who hears the children crying o'er their slatesAnd calling, "Help me master!" yet ...
You are the impulse of first love,the root of each good deed.Your spirit wakes and strengthens us,us counsels in our ...
Whoever was begotten by pure love,And came desired and welcome into life,Is of immaculate conception. HeWhose heart is full of ...
Friendship needs no studied phrases,Polished face, or winning wiles;Friendship deals no lavish praises,Friendship dons no surface smiles.Friendship follows nature's diction,Shuns ...
Darling, to say I love thee, is to say What I have often said, with careless arm Round Chloe's waist, ...
E'EN winter has its charmstho' his keen blastSeals all creationtho' his driving snowsLevel her surface, and in feather'd garbCloathe the ...
They say that "Time assuages"-Time never did assuage-An actual suffering strengthensAs Sinews do, with age-Time is a Test of Trouble-But ...
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the ...
They say that "Time assuages" -- Time never did assuage -- An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age ...
The south-wind strengthens to a gale, Across the moon the clouds fly fast, The house is smitten as with a ...
Here, where men's eyes were empty and as bright As the blank windows set in glaring brick, When the wind ...
An imaginary composer.] I. Hist, but a word, fair and soft! Forth and be judged, Master Hugues! Answer the question ...
Love to God. Happy the heart where graces reign, Where love inspires the breast; Love is the brightest of the ...
Watchman, what of the night? - Storm and thunder and rain, Lights that waver and wane, Leaving the watchfires unlit. ...
"Throughout these infinite orbs of mingling light, Of which yon earth is one, is wide diffus'd A Spirit of activity ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
This is what I most want unpursued, alone to reach beyond the light that I am furthest from. And for ...
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