Our Lady (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poems)
MOTHER of God! no lady thou: Common woman of common earthOur Lady ladies call thee now, But Christ was never of gentle ...
MOTHER of God! no lady thou: Common woman of common earthOur Lady ladies call thee now, But Christ was never of gentle ...
Forth flashed the serpent streak of steel, Consummate crown of man's device; Down crashed upon an immobile And brainless barrier ...
Have pity ! show no pity ! Those eyes that send such shivers Into my ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
Only the stars endome the lonely camp, Only the desert leagues encompass it; Waterless wastes, a wilderness of wit, Embattled ...
Mother of Light, and the Gods! Mother of Music, awake! Silence and speech are at odds; Heaven and Hell are ...
To-night I tread the unsubstantial way That looms before me, as the thundering night Falls on the ocean: I must ...
AN ATTACK ON BARBERCRAFT At last an end of all I hoped and feared! Muttered ...
I praise Thee, God, whose rays upstart beneath the Bright and Morning Star: Nowit asali fardh salat assobhi allahu akbar. ...
The South wind said to the palms: My lovers sing me psalms; But are they as warm as those That ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
To Kathleen- Nor I can give, nor you can take; endures The simple truth of me that is yours. Is ...
Nor thou, Habib, nor I are glad, when rosy limbs and sweat entwine; But rapture drowns the sense and self, ...
How many million galaxies there are Who knows? and each has countless stars in it, And each rolls through eternities ...
I to the open road, You to the hunchbacked street - Which of us two Shall the earlier rue That ...
Thrill with lissome lust of the light, O man ! My man ! Come careering out of the night Of ...
Your hair was full of roses in the dewfall as we danced, The sorceress enchanting and the paladin entranced, In ...
Lo! I lament. Fallen is the sixfold Star: Slain is Asar. O twinned with me in the womb of Night! ...
Here rests beneath this hospitable spot A youth to flats and flatties not unknown. The Plymouth Brethren gave it to ...
For Margot Snow that fallest from heaven, bear me aloft on thy wings To the domes of the star-girdled Seven, ...
A vision of flushed faces, shining limbs, The madness of the music that entrances All life ...
Pale as the night that pales In the dawn's pearl-pure pavillion, I wait for thee, ...
TO LAYLAH EIGHT-AND-TWENTY Lamp of living loveliness, Maid miraculously male, Rapture of thine own excess Blushing through the velvet veil ...
Jupiter Mars P Moon VENEZIA, "May" 19"th", 1910. Jupiter's foursquare blaze of gold and blue Rides on the moon, a ...
When the chill of earth black-breasted is uplifted at the glance Of the red sun million-crested, and the forest blossoms ...
El Arabi! El Arabi! Burn in thy brilliance, mine own! O Beautiful! O Barbarous! Seductive as a serpent is That ...
As night hath stars, more rare than ships In ocean, faint from pole to pole, So all the wonder of ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
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