Beyond The Stars (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
Three days I heard them grieve when I lay dead, (It was so strange to me that they should weep!) ...
Three days I heard them grieve when I lay dead, (It was so strange to me that they should weep!) ...
(Being Certain Fragments from Scheherazade's Songs in "The Thousand and One Nights")O Queen of Beauty, who hast conquered kings,O woman ...
He had been singing-but I had not heard his voice; He had been weaving lovely dreams of song, O many ...
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, ...
There came a whisper in the night,A little cry across the years;And I who heard, in deep affright,Awakened with unnumbered ...
The sick man said: "I pray I shall not die Before this tumult which now rocks the earth Shall cease. ...
Here in the furnace city, in the humid air they faint,God's pallid poor, His people, with scarcely space for breath:So ...
How silently the years in long procession,Come gliding down the corridors of Time to us!O quietly they come and take ...
In every trembling bud and bloomThat cleaves the earth, a flowery sword,I see Thee come from out the tomb,Thou risen ...
How shall I know her, God, in that great world,After the grief of this is past and gone?How shall I ...
As long as the stars of GodHang steadfast in the sky,And the blossoms 'neath the sodAwake when Spring is nigh;As ...
Suppose you should forget,After our hope and tears,To wait for me in that shining placeThat lies beyond the years!Suppose I ...
There are green islands in the city sea,Where all day long, the endless, passionate wavesBeat, yet destroy not; and their ...
I am the flower within her garden-closeShe cast aside;Ah! had she plucked me, verily, God knows I had not died.I ...
When he went blundering back to God, His songs half written, his work half done, Who ...
Who loves all beauty loves beyond that we see;The gods give him a vision doubly blest;He sees the bloom upon ...
When one had gone awayTo join the quiet dead,Bleak, bleak for me the day,And dark the clouds o'erhead."Her voice I ...
There came an army from the sky,And surged across the parched plain;I saw the hurrying hosts go by--The blue batallions ...
Hoof-beats thundering on the paves,Wagons crashing by.(But O I dream of distant waves,God's tent of open sky!)Bells that clamor all ...
I need not shout my faith. Thrice eloquent Are quiet trees and the green listening sod; Hushed are the stars, ...
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