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 ...
Unto a soul there came the spectre Strife,To teach him of the bitterness of life;And then came Grief, to mock ...
Roof-tops, roof-tops, what do you cover? Sad folk, bad folk, and many a glowing lover; Wise people, simple people, children ...
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, ...
I have made empty all my heart for you!I have shut out the mad noise of the world,Closed every window, ...
I come, the New Year saith, "unbid by man, And all the world must look upon my face; And some ...
How shall I know her, God, in that great world,After the grief of this is past and gone?How shall I ...
Down his great corridors of sumptuous soundToday I wandered once again. Each wordSeemed like the lyric rapture of a birdSinging ...
Suppose you should forget,After our hope and tears,To wait for me in that shining placeThat lies beyond the years!Suppose I ...
I do not need you now! Thus do I endOur days together, O beloved friend;Thus do I shake all remnants ...
Although I dare to sayMy heart untarnished is from day to day,'Tis not, O Love, that any strength of mineHas ...
I count the days, beloved; but not thoseWhen you are absent, though my heart well knowsThat they are bleak indeed. ...
There is so much that you can give to me--I cannot bring you anything at all,Save worship and the little, ...
I need so much the quiet of your love, After the day's loud strife; I need ...
Leave me some fragment of our love,Some remnant of our bliss,That I may drink the joy thereofThrough days more bleak ...
I said, "Love laughs at Time," before I knewThe perfect joy of wholly loving you;So swift the days went hurrying ...
I drink the fragrance of the rose,And yet she has more wealth to give,The perfume from her red heart flows,And ...
O moth, that yearns for me,The whole world pities thee,Foredoomed on heedless wing,By mad fire-worshipping.But sadder is my fate,Who, when ...
Love was with me yesterday--In the dusk she crept away;But I am light-hearted yet,Since I never can forget.All the world ...
I thought my heart would break Because the Spring was slow. I said, "How long young April sleeps Beneath the ...
Somewhere, perchance, there is a loveThat one day I may gain;But O, it is so very far,Through darkness and the ...
She knew that Love was dying--not so muchWhen Love's dear eyes were closed and blind to her,As when, with patient ...
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