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 ...
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, ...
Toward that sweet city where the Virgin mild Brought forth her Child Fain would I turn upon this Christmas day, ...
(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 ...
Now that Spring is in the land,Now that April wakes the wood,I would take my scrip in hand,Roving with old ...
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. ...
Eulenspiegel, merry lad,What a laughing life you had!Prank and jest were yours by rightOr at noontime or at night,And the ...
Here in the furnace city, in the humid air they faint,God's pallid poor, His people, with scarcely space for breath:So ...
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, ...
The lilies whisper in the park,Pale watchers in the heavy night,Wan ghosts that haunt the fragrant dark.How pure they are! ...
How shall I know her, God, in that great world,After the grief of this is past and gone?How shall I ...
One told me he had heard it whispered: "Lo! The hour has come when Europe, desperate With sudden ...
This was my dream in May--to have one bloom,Fragrant with apple-scent and Springtide rain,Live thro' the bleakness of the midnight ...
Pale flowers are you, that scarce have known the sun!Your little faces like sad blossoms seem,Shut in some room, there ...
How bravely now I face the marching days,With Youth's strong armor to defy the years!Nought now I know of the ...
There was a flower in ancient FezThat (so the glowing legend says)Has never lost its matchless lightFrom Summer dawn to ...
She died when dawn was sweeping o'er the land,When morning-glories lit the gleaming wall;And one who watched her, holding her ...
I am the flower within her garden-closeShe cast aside;Ah! had she plucked me, verily, God knows I had not died.I ...
Deep in the night I heardThe rain's mysterious word.(It was as if an old love spoke, a dead love sobbed ...
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 ...
Loud on my roof the regiments of rainMarch with their old insistence, and I hearTroop after troop, column and troop ...
The sun has gone, and from the ferryboatThat like a golden worm crawls through the night,I watch the myriad stars ...
Far in the gold-embroidered westThe round and red sun lay,Like a great wound upon the breastOf the slow-dying day.Night, and ...
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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