Poems about tongueless (21 Poems)
Horizons (Paul Hamilton Hayne Poems)
I LOVE to gaze along the horizon’s verge–To strain my sight where steeped in golden-grayThe sun-illumined vapors gently surge,To melt in measureless distances away. I gaze and gaze, till tears bedim my eyes,And tongueless fancies haunt me, vague and fond;Ethereal … Continue reading
Put Out My Eyes (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Put out my eyes, and I can see you still,Slam my ears to, and I can hear you yet;And without any feet can go to you;And tongueless, I can conjure you at will.Break off my arms, I shall take hold … Continue reading
The Light of Asia: Book the Fifth (Edwin Arnold Poems)
Round Rajagriha five fair hills arose,Guarding King Bimbas?ra’s sylvan town:Baibh?ra green with lemon-grass and palms;Bipulla, at whose foot thin SarsutiSteals with warm ripple; shadowy Tapovan,Whose steaming pools mirror black rocks, which oozeSovereign earth-butter from their rugged roofsSouth-east the vulture-peak Sail?giri;And … Continue reading
An Anthem Of Earth (Francis Thompson Poems)
Proemion. Immeasurable Earth!Through the loud vast and populacy of Heaven,Tempested with gold schools of ponderous orbs,That cleav’st with deep-revolting harmoniesPassage perpetual, and behind thee draw’stA furrow sweet, a cometary wakeOf trailing music! What large effluence,Not sole the cloudy sighing of … Continue reading
Theophila Or Loves Sacrifice. Canto V (Edward Benlowes Poems)
The Representation. ARGUMENT. Mundus Opes, Animam Coelum, Terramque resumpsit Terra: DEUS, Vitam cum tulit, Ipse dedit. Solus Amor facit esse DEUM; Quem, Mente capaci, Si Quis conciperet, posset & esse DEUS. The Authors Vision, Her Ascent, Heav’ns Place … Continue reading
The Candidate (George Crabbe Poems)
A POETICAL EPISTLE TO THE AUTHORS OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW. AN INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS OF THE AUTHOR TO HIS POEMS. Ye idler things, that soothed my hours of care,Where would ye wander, triflers, tell me where?As maids neglected, do ye fondly … Continue reading
The Sage Enamoured And The Honest Lady (George Meredith Poems)
I One fairest of the ripe unwedded leftHer shadow on the Sage’s path; he found,By common signs, that she had done a theft.He could have made the sovereign heights resoundWith questions of the wherefore of her state:He on far other … Continue reading
Fort Dearborn (Albery Allson Whitman Poems)
Fort Dearborn is a strong and goodly place,And o’er the frontier looks with valiant faceTo greet the hostile tread of savage harm,With tongue of thunder and an iron arm.Far up he stands, on a commanding ground,With grizly turrets rising high … Continue reading
Kuprianov and Natasha (Aleksandr Ivanovich Vvedensky Poems)
Kuprianov and his dear lady Natasha after walking those swinish guests to the door prepare for bed. kuprianovsaid, taking off his majestic tie Frightening the dark the candle burns,it has silver bones.Natasha,why do you stroll about yearning,the guests are probably … Continue reading
Before A Crucifix (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
Here, down between the dusty trees, At this lank edge of haggard wood,Women with labour-loosened knees, With gaunt backs bowed by servitude,Stop, shift their loads, and pray, and fareForth with souls easier for the prayer. The suns have … Continue reading