Out Of The East (John Freeman Poems)
When man first walked upright and soberly Reflecting as he paced to and fro,And no more swinging from wide tree to ...
John Freeman Poems on Sadness (30 Poems)
Beechwood (John Freeman Poems)
Hear me, O beeches! YouThat have with ageless anguish slowly risenFrom earth's still secret prisonInto the ampler prison of aery ...
The Human Music (John Freeman Poems)
At evening when the aspens rustled softAnd the last blackbird by the hedge-nest laughed,And through the leaves the moon's unmeaning ...
The Pigeons (John Freeman Poems)
The pigeons, following the faint warm light,Stayed at last on the roof till warmth was gone,Then in the mist that's ...
The Song Of The Forest (John Freeman Poems)
ITo Thee, Most Holy, Most Obscure, light-hidden,Shedding light in the darkness of the mindAs gold beams wake the air to ...
To The Heavenly Power (John Freeman Poems)
When this burning fleshBurns down in Time's slow fire to a glowing ash;When these lips have utteredThe last word, and ...
Sweet England (John Freeman Poems)
I heard a boy that climbed up Dover's HillSinging _Sweet England_, sweeter for his song.The notes crept muffled through the ...
The Stars In Their Courses (John Freeman Poems)
And now, while the dark vast earth shakes and rocksIn this wild dream-like snare of mortal shocks,How look (I muse) ...
First Love (John Freeman Poems)
I"No, no! Leave me not in this dark hour,"She cried. And I,"Thou foolish dear, but call not dark this hour;What ...
The Tossing Mountains (John Freeman Poems)
They were like dreams that in a drowsy hourA sad old God had dreamed in loneliness of power.They were like ...
The Night Watch (John Freeman Poems)
Beneath the trees with heedful step and slow At night I go,Fearful upon their whispering to break Lest they awakeOut of those ...
Time From His Grave (John Freeman Poems)
When the south-west wind cameThe air grew bright and sweet, as though a flameHad cleansed the world of winter. The ...
Comfortable Light (John Freeman Poems)
Most comfortable Light,Light of the small lamp burning up the night,With dawn enleagued against the beaten dark;Pure golden perfect spark;Or ...
The Fall (John Freeman Poems)
From that warm height and pure, The peak undreamed of out of heavy air Rising to heaven more strange and rare;From that ...
The Swing (John Freeman Poems)
It was like floating in a blessed dream to roamAcross green meadows, far from home,With only trees and quivering sky ...
The Light That Never Was On Sea Or Land (John Freeman Poems)
O gone are now those eager great glad days of days, but I remember Yet even yet the light that turned ...
The First House (John Freeman Poems)
That is the earliest thing that I remember--The narrow house in the long narrow street,Dark rooms within and darkness out ...
Fear (John Freeman Poems)
There was a child that screamed,And if it was the gathering tingling dark,Or if it was the tingling silencesBetween few ...
At The Dock (John Freeman Poems)
They loiter round the Dock that holds yon ShipShuddering at the dark pool's defiled lipFrom springing bows to foam-deriding stern;They ...
The Fear (John Freeman Poems)
Surely I must have ailed On that dark night,Or my childish courage failed Because there was no light;Or terror must have come With ...
Wonder (John Freeman Poems)
Following upon the faint wind's fickle courses A feather drifts and strays. My thought after her thought Floated--how many ways and days!She swayed ...
Happy Death (John Freeman Poems)
Bugle and battle-cry are still, The long strife's over;Low o'er the corpse-encumbered hill The sad stars hover.It is in vain, O stars! ...
Strife (John Freeman Poems)
The wind fought with the angry trees.All morning in immense uneaseThey wrestled, and ruin strawed the ground, And the north sky ...
The Beam (John Freeman Poems)
The dead white on the fields' dead whiteTurned the peace to misery.Tall bony trees their wild arms thrustInto the cold ...
Eyes (John Freeman Poems)
A winter sky of pale blue and pale gold,Bare trees, a wind that made the wood-path cold,And one slow-moving figure, ...
Once There Was Time (John Freeman Poems)
Let no tears fall If then they fell not.If eyes told nothing, Now let them tell not.Once there was time For words, looks ...
At Evening’s Hush (John Freeman Poems)
Now pipe no more, glad Shepherd, Your joys from this fair hill Through golden eves and still:There sounds from yon dense quarryA ...
Lighting The Fire (John Freeman Poems)
You were a gipsy as you bentYour dark hair over the black grate.Hardly the west light above the hillShowed your ...
Take Care, Take Care (John Freeman Poems)
Bind up, bind up your dark bright hair And hide the smouldering sunken fire.Let it be held no more than fair,Nor ...
Let Honour Speak (John Freeman Poems)
Let Honour speak, for only Honour canEnd nobly what in nobleness began.Nor hate nor anger may, though just their cause,This ...