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 ...
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, ...
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
There are things, I know, that are sad and strange,As the world swings round in the old-time way;O Life is ...
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, ...
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, ...
How silently the years in long procession,Come gliding down the corridors of Time to us!O quietly they come and take ...
When, sick of all the sorrow and distress That flourished in the City like foul weeds, ...
I who love the Spring so wellShall be sleeping, some glad day,When her hosts come back to dwellIn their old, ...
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 ...
I come, the New Year saith, "unbid by man, And all the world must look upon my face; And some ...
We came away from the tinsel and false,From the rings where we saw the elephants waltz;From the clowns with their ...
The lilies whisper in the park,Pale watchers in the heavy night,Wan ghosts that haunt the fragrant dark.How pure they are! ...
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