An Insincere Wish Addressed to a Beggar (Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Poems)
We are not near enough to love,I can but pity all your woe;For wealth has lifted me above,And falsehood set ...
We are not near enough to love,I can but pity all your woe;For wealth has lifted me above,And falsehood set ...
When my love did what I would not, what I would not,I could hear his merry voice upon the wind,Crying, ...
When wintry winds are no more heard,And joy's in every bosom,When summer sings in every bird,And shines in every blossom,When ...
Grant me but a day, love,But a day,Ere I give my heart,My heart away,Ere I say the wordI'll ne'er unsay.Is ...
I ask of thee, love, nothing but relief.Thou canst not bring the old days back again;For I was happy then,Not ...
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
Out of the seething cauldron of my woes, Where sweets and salt and bitterness I flung; Where charmed music gathered ...
Only the stars endome the lonely camp, Only the desert leagues encompass it; Waterless wastes, a wilderness of wit, Embattled ...
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 ...
The mighty sound of forests murmuring In answer to the dread command; The stars that shudder when their king extends ...
There never was a face as fair as yours, A heart as true, a love as pure and keen. These ...
Come, my darling, let us dance To the moon that beckons us To dissolve our love in trance Heedless of ...
I to the open road, You to the hunchbacked street - Which of us two Shall the earlier rue That ...
Uncharmable charmer Of Bacchus and Mars In the sounding rebounding Abyss of the stars! O virgin in armour, Thine arrows ...
Your hair was full of roses in the dewfall as we danced, The sorceress enchanting and the paladin entranced, In ...
I bring ye wine from above, From the vats of the storied sun; For every one of yer love, And ...
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, ...
Ware, nor of good nor ill, what aim hath act? Without its climax, death, what savour hath Life? an impeccable ...
A vision of flushed faces, shining limbs, The madness of the music that entrances All life ...
So it is eighteen years, Helena, since we met! A season so endears, Nor you nor I forget The fresh ...
TO LAYLAH EIGHT-AND-TWENTY Lamp of living loveliness, Maid miraculously male, Rapture of thine own excess Blushing through the velvet veil ...
As night hath stars, more rare than ships In ocean, faint from pole to pole, So all the wonder of ...
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 ...
"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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