Guy Of The Temple (John Hay Poems)
Down the dim West slow fails the stricken sun,And from his hot face fades the crimson flushVeiled in death's herald-shadows ...
Down the dim West slow fails the stricken sun,And from his hot face fades the crimson flushVeiled in death's herald-shadows ...
I dreamed I was in fair Niphon.Amid tea-fields I journeyed on,Reclined in my jinrikishaw;Across the rolling plains I sawThe lordly ...
When by Jabbok the patriarch waited To learn on the morrow his doom,And his dubious spirit debated In darkness and silence and ...
The King was sick. His cheek was red,And his eye was clear and bright;He ate and drank with kingly zest,And ...
I.Wisely a woman prefers to a lover a man who neglects her.This one may love her some day, some day ...
In the dream of the Northern poets, The brave who in battle dieFight on in shadowy phalanx In the field of the ...
I'll tell the story, kissing This white hand for my pains:No sweeter heart, nor falser E'er filled such fine, blue veins.I'll sing ...
On the bluff of the Little Big-Horn,At the close of a woful day,Custer and his Three HundredIn death and silence ...
Under the high unclouded sunThat makes the ship and shadow one, I sail away as from the fortBooms sullenly the noonday ...
A sentinel angel sitting high in gloryHeard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory:"Have mercy, mighty angel, hear my story!"I ...
As I lay at your feet that afternoon,Little we spoke,--you sat and mused,Humming a sweet old-fashioned tune,And I worshipped you, ...
Let them say to my Lover That here I lie!The thing of His pleasure, His slave am I.Say that I seek Him Only ...
When Youth's warm heart beats high, my friend, And Youth's blue sky is bright,And shines in Youth's clear eye, my friend, Love's ...
Sad is the thought of sunniest days Of love and rapture perished,And shine through memory's tearful haze The eyes once fondliest cherished.Reproachful ...
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