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 ...
I am the king of a wide domain, and you deem it a wonderful thing;But the kingly height is a ...
The little home paper comes to me, As badly printed as it can be; It's ungrammatical, cheap, absurd--Yet, how I ...
(On the sinking of the "Titanic")The jealous Sea moaned in the April night:"Lo! there are comrades hidden in my heart,Unfortunates ...
Unto a soul there came the spectre Strife,To teach him of the bitterness of life;And then came Grief, to mock ...
Now it was Mary dreamed this dream,Ere yet her child was bornIn that poor place in Bethlehem,In that poor stall ...
Roof-tops, roof-tops, what do you cover? Sad folk, bad folk, and many a glowing lover; Wise people, simple people, children ...
There came a whisper in the night,A little cry across the years;And I who heard, in deep affright,Awakened with unnumbered ...
There are things, I know, that are sad and strange,As the world swings round in the old-time way;O Life is ...
IYou who are wise today,What of your knowledge when life's little playIs ended, and the curtain rustles down--What of your ...
Time was, O Love, when I a vassal knelt,Obedient, at the footstool of thy throne;When all my life was thine--yea, ...
Breathe me the ancient words when I shall find Your spirit mine; if, seeking you, life wins New wonder, ...
How silently the years in long procession,Come gliding down the corridors of Time to us!O quietly they come and take ...
Around the corner I have a friend,In this great city that has no end,Yet the days go by and weeks ...
In every trembling bud and bloomThat cleaves the earth, a flowery sword,I see Thee come from out the tomb,Thou risen ...
There was a flower in ancient FezThat (so the glowing legend says)Has never lost its matchless lightFrom Summer dawn to ...
I do not need you now! Thus do I endOur days together, O beloved friend;Thus do I shake all remnants ...
It rained all day the day she died,And yet she thought it sweet and fair;She said the sunlight kissed her ...
I need so much the quiet of your love, After the day's loud strife; I need ...
When he went blundering back to God, His songs half written, his work half done, Who ...
Here surge the ceaseless caravans,Here throbs the city's heart,And down the street each takes his wayTo play his little part.The ...
Around the corner I have a friend, In this great city that has no end, Yet the days go by ...
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