The End Of A Page (Bernard Waters Poems)
THE Room is getting cold, one gas-light burns And the fire is now a monotonous red glow ; The old ...
THE Room is getting cold, one gas-light burns And the fire is now a monotonous red glow ; The old ...
RESTLESS is the present night, Fearfully it seems to shiver, No wind there is and yet Strangely the leaves quiver. ...
I CHANCED upon a line of thought, a thin line And traced its sinuous course from start to end ; ...
THE air is thick, unclean and warm And filled with mutterings of a storm ; Spidery Fear a web he ...
HERE am I, weary for want of Sleep, Yet cannot reach a state of just repose ; Stubbornly still though ...
I AM leaving this old house, Creeping from it like a mouse, This house, where my mother died And the ...
ALONG nerve and sinew doth old-age creep And it is time for sleep ; Not the deep dead sleep of ...
THE door of my room gives me visions Of the forest whence it came, Where first it kissed the sunlight ...
SOMETIMES my words wing with ease Much the same as the singing trees, Words and phrases formed complete, Empty, passionless ...
THE old house lies lonely amid the trees, Unloved, unregretted in the growing dusk. Till Night and her shadows its ...
LOW down is the sun and low his rays, Which, with their roseate pressure, beauty mould In tiny caverns 'mid ...
WOULD that my love for thee were not so deep And full of life, my heart not wholly thine, Then ...
IF you could speak, if I could only hear Your voice once more, the last fond words you said. Just ...
OFT on the pavement's edge have I stood, Watching the passing of women and men And known I was one ...
FAIR maid in all thy Summer loveliness, Enrich thy soul's parched land with kindly showers ; Let not Autumn compel ...
STEADY, insistent, Cruel, unceasing. Inevitably falls the rain ; Squelching the grass. Sodden the tired earth, Draggled the leafless trees ...
AMONG the bushes' clustered gold we found An alcove too quiet for whispering And flung ourselves on the comforting ground, ...
HOW sweet in recollection are our friends ; Their bright eyes, gleaming over fallen years, The blur of time dissolve ...
THOU potent pleader of a wrongful cause Would'st make the tested scales of justice waver ; How could I, decreed ...
NOW charmed is the earth With the moon's shining, And in the garden The chrysanthemums bloom In deeper colour than ...
WHEN Love awakens there shall be a radiance Like to the sun's setting on a rainy day, The breathed-in air ...
I KNOW not why we have drifted apart, For I love you as dearly as ever ; Our love was ...
THERE are dim and distant sounds In the eerie echoes of night And mournfully I stand alone And catch them ...
IYOUTH and Laughter, What comes after? After Laughter - Love, What is Love? A stolen kiss, A moment's bliss, A ...
WHO taught thee first such alchemy As I in thee behold? Thou turn'st the lead of dull Despair To Hope ...
IS the night only a time for sleep? 'Tis then I am to quiet places lead, Surrounded oft' by thoughtful ...
ONE golden morn, when Summer was born, I sat in the garden and read Of men who fought, fell, and ...
WHO has not breasted the chill flood of silence That freezes the blood to red ice in your veins? The ...
STRANGE lights flicker down the road Past the window of dreams, Each guiding a mystic load With its flickering beams, ...
BRING in the body And there let it rest, And lay the flowers On the heaveless breast. Till the flowers ...
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