A Lover in Damascus (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
IFar, far across the desert sands,I hear the camel-bells;Merchants have come from alien lands,With stuffs, and gems, and silken bands,Back ...
IFar, far across the desert sands,I hear the camel-bells;Merchants have come from alien lands,With stuffs, and gems, and silken bands,Back ...
I have heard the roar and clamor through the city's crowded waysOf the never-ending pageant moving down the busy days--Coaches, ...
Here in the furnace city, in the humid air they faint,God's pallid poor, His people, with scarcely space for breath:So ...
When, sick of all the sorrow and distress That flourished in the City like foul weeds, ...
The lilies whisper in the park,Pale watchers in the heavy night,Wan ghosts that haunt the fragrant dark.How pure they are! ...
Pale flowers are you, that scarce have known the sun!Your little faces like sad blossoms seem,Shut in some room, there ...
There was a flower in ancient FezThat (so the glowing legend says)Has never lost its matchless lightFrom Summer dawn to ...
Playing on Sixth AvenueHere's to you, brave Hurdy-gurdy,Grinding out your happy tuneWhile the traffic round you rumbles,In the city's Summer ...
There are green islands in the city sea,Where all day long, the endless, passionate wavesBeat, yet destroy not; and their ...
We saw the tapers burnIn the home so close to ours;But however our hearts might yearn,We dared not send our ...
I heard the voice of the city,Calling again and again,And into her arms there hastenedMillion and millions of men.And I ...
Here surge the ceaseless caravans,Here throbs the city's heart,And down the street each takes his wayTo play his little part.The ...
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