A Baghdad Lover (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
(Being Certain Fragments from Scheherazade's Songs in "The Thousand and One Nights")O Queen of Beauty, who hast conquered kings,O woman ...
(Being Certain Fragments from Scheherazade's Songs in "The Thousand and One Nights")O Queen of Beauty, who hast conquered kings,O woman ...
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, ...
The little home paper comes to me, As badly printed as it can be; It's ungrammatical, cheap, absurd--Yet, how I ...
Toward that sweet city where the Virgin mild Brought forth her Child Fain would I turn upon this Christmas day, ...
IYou who are wise today,What of your knowledge when life's little playIs ended, and the curtain rustles down--What of your ...
This was my dream in May--to have one bloom,Fragrant with apple-scent and Springtide rain,Live thro' the bleakness of the midnight ...
Thou hast come back to me!(Thou who didst die a year ago,And slept so many days beneath the snow)Thou hast ...
She died when dawn was sweeping o'er the land,When morning-glories lit the gleaming wall;And one who watched her, holding her ...
The sun has gone, and from the ferryboatThat like a golden worm crawls through the night,I watch the myriad stars ...
Like moonstones drooping from a fair queen's earsThe pale lights seem--White gems that shimmer when the dark appearsAnd the old ...
I saw the day's white raptureDie in the sunset's flame,But all her shining beautyLives like a deathless name.Our lamps of ...
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