Omar Dead (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
FROM the squat tavern laughing to the eastHe turned; within the murmuring babbleceas'd;And red wine split on scattered roses thereExhaled ...
FROM the squat tavern laughing to the eastHe turned; within the murmuring babbleceas'd;And red wine split on scattered roses thereExhaled ...
I.THE flowing night awoken from my sleepRevealed a world of glory, while I stoodWatching the hazy, creeping ocean sweepOut of ...
KNOW this : that through all time past Love hasbeenSo sweet that none could perish and not liveForthwith again.Ere Persia ...
HIM, wounded, shackled, pricked with spears,they dragged and goaded through thetown.Up the soaked hill 'neath dripping boughs, acrosssteep ditches slipping ...
GOD dreaming in his star-enshrouded skyBethought himself of me, so even IWho was till then as nothing, leapt to life ...
I. The Builders Of The PyramidO, CELESTIAL Khu-fu, ThouKing, art Osiris now.Our lives were Thine, yet were we freeTo live ...
A MERE two hundred years ago he spoke,He arguing with me - I can hear him croakStill, at my side ...
He found her where white daisies blewAgainst the wood in drift of spray,And glimpses of the sky upthrewBlood from the ...
DO not crave sure ease - to quaffClear crystal cups abrim with wine,When lips are fain to mock and laughAnd ...
IT has taken all time for that wave to swell,Low-ridged, from the ocean over the bay.While cEons withered and nations ...
He: Blue, blue eternally, dark waves and skyBlue - and beyond unending deeps of blue,This and the emerald earth, the ...
WHAT dream in what strange landShall waken me to-night? What sweetLips burn for mine? What arms entwineMy neck, my knees, ...
Down crumbling steps I galloped fast;Swart cliffs and gullies on each handEngulfed the night; dry, yellow sand,Far-strewn with wreckage, gaped ...
BEHOLD it was this very night:Outwearied with the plaintive rain.I rose, 1 cast her from my sight -Who loves, must ...
HE had said, "Thank God for my body obscene,For the lust that oppresses life, choking me;Hereby shall I prove my ...
I DREDGE my soul for buried memories.The pomp of perished ages, once divine,Breaks dawn-like over realms that gleam and shineMysterious ...
OF all the sweetest could there beAnother who could seem so fair,Another who could charm despairInto sweet realms of fantasy,Another ...
YOURSELF most composite,Chequered with day and night,What secret thing are you? -Behold that sky of blue:All that you hear and ...
AS from unnumbered worlds awayI found myself My drowsy feetToil up the hill; the summer heatThrobs through the vacant city ...
I SAW him where the doomed, a thickening flood,Jostled the brazen Gates of Heaven. HecriedWith dry-parched throat and lips beslimed ...
SWEET, with the dark of night entangled inHer bright hair's revelry, and with the sky'sClear blue illumining her eyes.She comes ...
EACH hour that passes, dead for evermore,Lies in the waste of ages whence the staleAir of unwoken silence, shore to ...
I DIDN'T hate him, not a bitAs from your beer just off the brimYou'd spill a midge and stamp on ...
A WORLD for laughter, thisLive earth-abyss IAround the glad gods sitAnd gloat on it,While tottering men dare tread,Tiptoe among the ...
Contemptuous of universes, ISurvey all space devoid of fear or trust.With will defiant fearful to defy,Awed by the vastness of ...
WHEN black midnight owls their hootingCease, and whisperings ebb and fall,Buds are shaken,And thin shootingTendrils waken -Fairies call IGaily crickets ...
He answered: Though prayers dark 'midsmothering cloudsBeseech my mercy, hearken how I strainAgainst you know not what, whose dreaded shroudsBenumb ...
Through bright glistening dew, light-listeningTo the stir of flowering meads,Singing shyly, winging slyly,Ever on he gladly speedsOpen fairy realms and ...
FROM the creeping deep darkness dimFar shadows of sunset broodFrom the shroud of hill and treeTo the wash of the ...
Let a man drink,For what can he thinkWorthy to sink or worthy to rise-Seeing the gods are up in the ...
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