The Sword Of Pain (George Essex Evans Poems)
The Lights burn dim and make weird shadow-play,The white walls of the ward are changed to grey,Down the long aisle ...
The Lights burn dim and make weird shadow-play,The white walls of the ward are changed to grey,Down the long aisle ...
Weary was I of Earth. My body lay, Its fires turned down and slaked to faintest heat.My soul went ...
When first the Gods, whose Empire is eternal, In Time's deep chalice poured Life's sacred wine,Flashed all the crystal ...
It was the middle of the drought; the ground was hot and bare,You might search for grass with a microscope, ...
In an age of Mammon and Greed, In an age of Humbug and ...
Now that the gods are dead-where shall we find us a god?Myths of the Greek Olympus have sunk in the ...
THE BOY went out from the ranges grim,And the breath of the mountains went with him;With a song in his ...
A handful of workers seeking the star of a strong intent — A handful of heroes scattered to conquer a ...
Where is God, whilst all around us sounds the jarring of the wheels,When the cry of human anguish starwards thro' ...
In sea and air, in leaf and stone, Where'er Truth's magic words are writ,Where thousands throng, or rapt and ...
O for a vision of the perfect light To shame the splendour of the morning star!O for a breath ...
Whisper, O wings of the wind! Sing me your song, O sea!Grey is the weary world, and grey is the ...
They left the vine-wreathed cottage and the mansion on the hill,The houses in the busy streets where life is never ...
I stood in the heart of the city street,I felt the throb of her pulses beat,The thunder of life on ...
Nature feels the touch of noon; Not a rustle stirs the grass;Not a shadow flecks the sky,Save the brown hawk ...
NOW is there rest for heart and brainNo mandate calls to him again.The lips that voiced the People's willAre powerless ...
Bright skies of summer o'er the deep, And soft salt air along the land,The blue wave, lisping in its ...
There fell on me a dream when days were gray, And Hope had left me there to grope aloneAmid ...
His hat looks worn, and his coat-sleeves shine,As I see him step from his 'bus at nine;His boots are pieced ...
There is a magic kingdom of strange powers,Thought-hidden, lit by other stars than ours;And, when a wanderer through its mazes ...
Around and beneath, the dull grey mist and the sullen roar of the sea,Scant footing-place on the sheer cliffs face-with ...
The dull earth swung in silence o'er, A dreamless world, a dreary star,Until the doves of Venus bore ...
Here am I sent a wanderer like to thee,And here a moment ere the night I stand.The twin eternities-Has Been, ...
The roar and rush of life sweeps on;Still shines the sun as once it shone:Men reap and sow and live ...
O wilt Thou on the day when all is sifted, All heights of Heaven, all depths of Hell laid ...
Friend, you have wealth and power,Men go and come at your call,Yours are the whims of the hour-What have you ...
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