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 ...
I stand at the break of dayIn the Champs Elysees.The tremulous shafts of dawningAs they shoot o'er the Tuileries early,Strike ...
A hundred times the bells of Brown Have rung to sleep the idle summers,And still to-day clangs clamoring down A greeting to ...
I tore this weed from the rank, dark soilWhere it grew in the monkish time,I trimmed it close and set ...
A Tale of Earnest Effort and Human PerfidyIt's all very well for preachingBut preachin' and practice don't gee:I've give the ...
Ef the way a man lights out of this world Helps fix his heft for the other sp'ere,I reckon my old ...
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 ...
The song of Kilvani: fairest sheIn all the land of Savatthi.She had one child, as sweet and gayAnd dear to ...
Had we but met in other days,Had we but loved in other ways,Another light and hope had shone On your life ...
There was never a castle seen So fair as mine in Spain:It stands embowered in green, Crowning the gentle slopeOf a hill ...
I don't go much on religion, I never ain't had no show;But I've got a middlin' tight grip, sir, On the handful ...
In the dream of the Northern poets, The brave who in battle dieFight on in shadowy phalanx In the field of the ...
Wall, no! I can't tell whar he lives, Becase he don't live, you see;Leastways, he's got out of the habit Of livin' ...
(Remarks of Sergeant Tilmon Joy to The White Man's Committee of SpunkyPoint, Illinois.)I reckon I git your drift, gents,-- You 'low ...
My dear wife sits beside the fire With folded hands and dreaming eyes,Watching the restless flames aspire, And wrapped in thralling memories.I ...
In the whole wide world there was but one,Others for others, but she was mine,The one fair woman beneath 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 ...
Saloman looked from his donjon bars,Where the Danube clamors through sedge and sand,And he cursed with a curse his revolting ...
The darkest, strangest mysteryI ever read, or heern, or see,Is 'long of a drink at Taggart's Hall,-- Tom Taggart's of Gilgal.I've ...
He stood before the Sanhedrim;The scowling rabbis gazed at him.He recked not of their praise or blame;There was no fear, ...
The skies are blue above my head, The prairie green below,And flickering o'er the tufted grass The shifting shadows go,Vague-sailing, where the ...
Under the high unclouded sunThat makes the ship and shadow one, I sail away as from the fortBooms sullenly the noonday ...
On Tabor's height a glory came,And, shrined in clouds of lambent flame,The awestruck, hushed disciples sawChrist and the prophets of ...
I.Land of unconquered Pelayo! land of the Cid Campeador!Sea-girdled mother of men! Spain, name of glory and power;Cradle of world-grasping ...
I pray you, pardon me, Elsie, And smile that frown awayThat dims the light of your lovely face As a thunder-cloud the ...
A Squad of regular infantryIn the Commune's closing days,Had captured a crowd of rebelsBy the wall of Pere-la-Chaise.There were desperate ...
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