The Prophecy Of St. Oran: Part I (Mathilde Blind Poems)
"Earth, earth on the mouth of Oran, that he may blab no more." Gaelic Proverb. I.THE storm had ceased to rave: ...
"Earth, earth on the mouth of Oran, that he may blab no more." Gaelic Proverb. I.THE storm had ceased to rave: ...
I.THERE was a windless mere, on whose smooth breastA little island, flushed with purple bloom,Lay gently cradled like a moorhen's ...
I."A CURSE is on this work!" Columba cried;And with their dark robes flapping in the gale,The frightened monks came hurrying ...
OH come, thou power divine, Thou lovely spirit with the wings of light,And let thy dewy eyesShed their sweet influences on ...
BRIGHT as a morn of spring,That jubilates along the earth,With clouds, and winds, and flowers rejoicing,And all the creatures that ...
BEHOLD, unto myself I said,This place how dull and desolate,For lovely thoughts how all unmeet,This drear and darksome London street.Above, ...
I.It is the night: across the starless wasteOf silent heaven the solitary moonFlits like a frightened maid who flies in ...
I.I SAW thee in the streets, so wan and pale; My heart, it shivered at the saddening sight;Like a thin cloud ...
I.I WALK about in driving snow, And drizzling rain, splashed o'er and o'er;No sign that radiant spring e'en now Stands at the ...
OH torrent, roaring in thy giant fall, And thund'ring grandly o'er th' opposing blocks,Thy voice, far louder than the lion's call, Through ...
Where the mummied Kings of Egypt, wrapped in linen fold on fold,Couched for ages in their coffins, crowned with crowns ...
When ich Dich liebe was geht es Dich an?I.THE air is full of the peal of bells,The rhythmical pealing of ...
ACROSS the barren moors the wild, wild windWent sweeping on, and with his sobs and shrieksFilled the still night, and ...
NOW the earth in fields and hillsStirs with pulses of the Spring,Next-embowering hedges ringWith interminable trills;Sunlight runs a race with ...
SHE sat by the wayside and wept, where roses, red roses and white,Lay wasted and withered and sere, like her ...
I.SHE stood against the Orient sun,Her face inscrutable for light;A myriad larks in unisonSang o'er her, soaring out of sight.A ...
Uncircumscribed, unmeasured, vast, Eternal as the Sea;What lacks the tidal sea thou hast— Profound stability.Beneath the sun that burns and brands In hushed ...
What a twitter! what a tumult! what a whirr of wheeling wings!Birds of Passage hear the message which the Equinoctial ...
W.K.C.--3rd MARCH, 1879."A free man thinks of nothing so little as of death; and his wisdom is a meditation, not ...
JUNE, 1866.BREATHE thro' me in music, Spirit of the time!Pregnant with the future, Spirit of the time!As the west wind sougheth, Through the ...
Popular Name for Lake Nemi.SHE floats into the quiet skies, Where, in the circle of hills, Her immemorial mirror fillsWith light, as ...
Ah! I shall kill myself with dreams! These dreams that softly lap me round Through trance-like hours in which meseems That I am ...
Hail, God revived in glory! The night is over and done;Far mountains wrinkled and hoary,Fair cities great in story, Flash in the ...
I charge you, O winds of the West, O winds with the wings of the dove,That ye blow o'er the ...
I was an Arab, I loved my horse;Swift as an arrow He swept the course.Sweet as a lamb He came to hand;He was ...
The winds had hushed at last as by command;The quiet sky above,With its grey clouds spread oer the fallow land,Sat ...
THE flowers are at their Bacchanals Among the lusty green;Wild Orchis and Narcissus waltz With Marguerite for queen.Birds join in glees and ...
PEACH trees and Judas trees, Poppies and roses,Purple anemones In garden closes!Lost in the limpid sky,Shrills a gay lark on high;Lost in ...
When you wake from troubled slumbers With a dream-bewildered brain,And old leaves which no man numbers Chattering tap against the pane;And the ...
I STOOD as one enchanted, All in the forest deep:As one that wond'ring wanders, Dream-bound within his sleep.A thousand rustling footsteps Pattered upon ...
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