Cliche Came Out of its Cage (C. S. Lewis Poems)
1You said 'The world is going back to Paganism'.Oh bright Vision! I saw our dynasty in the bar of the ...
1You said 'The world is going back to Paganism'.Oh bright Vision! I saw our dynasty in the bar of the ...
Thank God that there are solid folkWho water flowers and roll the lawn,And sit an sew and talk and smoke,And ...
I heard the swallow sing in the eaves and roseAll in a strange delight while others slept,And down the creaking ...
So piteously the lonely soul of manShudders before this universal plan,So grievous is the burden and the pain,So heavy weighs ...
Suddenly there came to meThe music of a mighty seaThat on a bare and iron shoreThundered with a deeper roarThan ...
Now the grey mist comes creeping upFrom the waste ocean's weedy strandAnd fills the valley, as a cupIf filled of ...
If men should ask, Despoina, why I tellOf nothing glad nor noble in my verseTo lighten hearts beneath this present ...
I cried out for the pain of man,I cried out for my bitter wrathAgainst the hopeless life that ranFor ever ...
All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you.I never had a selfless thought since I was born.I am mercenary and ...
Woe unto you, ye sons of pain that are this day in earth,Now cry for all your torment: now curse ...
Thank God that there are solid folkWho water flowers and roll the lawn,And sit and sew and talk and smoke,And ...
I heard the swallow sing in the eaves and roseAll in a strange delight while others slept,And down the creaking ...
Who shall be our prophet then,Chosen from all the sons of menTo lead his fellows on the wayOf hidden knowledge, ...
So piteously the lonely soul of manShudders before this universal plan,So grievous is the burden and the pain,So heavy weighs ...
Love, there is a castle built in a country desolate,On a rock above a forest where the trees are grim ...
Suddenly there came to meThe music of a mighty seaThat on a bare and iron shoreThundered with a deeper roarThan ...
Now the grey mist comes creeping upFrom the waste ocean's weedy strandAnd fills the valley, as a cupIf filled of ...
For all the lore of Lodge and MyersI cannot heal my torn desires,Nor hope for all that man can speerTo ...
Roland is dead, Cuchulain's crest is low,The battered war-rear wastes and turns to rust,And Helen's eyes and Iseult's lips are ...
If men should ask, Despoina, why I tellOf nothing glad nor noble in my verseTo lighten hearts beneath this present ...
A place uplifted towards the midnight skyFar, far away among the mountains old,A treeless waste of rocks and freezing cold,Where ...
I cried out for the pain of man,I cried out for my bitter wrathAgainst the hopeless life that ranFor ever ...
Hard light bathed them-a whole nation of eyeless men, Dark bipeds not aware how they were maimed. A long Process, ...
No. It's an impudent falsehood. Men did not Invariably think the newer way Prosaic mad, inelegant, or what not. Was ...
An Epithaliamium So Man, grown vigorous now, Holds himself ripe to breed, Daily devises how To ejaculate his seed And ...
All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you. I never had a selfless thought since I was born. I am ...
1 You said 'The world is going back to Paganism'. Oh bright Vision! I saw our dynasty in the bar ...
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