Theology Poems (59 Poems)
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 2: Fourth Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
_Interlocutors_: SEVERINO. MINUTOLO. SEV. You will see the origin of the nine blind men, who state ninereasons and special causes of their blindness, and yet they all agree inone general reason and one common enthusiasm. MIN. Begin with the first! … Continue reading
The Heroic Enthusiasts: Part 2: Second Dialogue (Giordano Bruno Poems)
MARICONDO. Here you see a flaming yoke enveloped in knots round which iswritten: Levius aura; which means that Divine love does not weigh down,nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, butraises him, supports him and magnifies … Continue reading
The Deluge (Henry Hart Milman Poems)
The following extract from the Mahabharata was published by Bopp, with a German translation, (the promised Latin version has not yet reached this country,) with four other extracts from the same poem. It is inserted here not on account of its poetical merit, but … Continue reading
An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
the spiritual, Platonic old England .S. T. COLERIDGE, Anima Poetae ‘Your situation’, said Coningsby, looking up the green and silent valley, ‘is absolutely poetic.’‘I try sometimes to fancy’, said Mr Millbank, with a rather fierce smile, ‘that I am in … Continue reading
Vale` – Father Pat (John O Brien Poems)
Yes, that’s the hardest hand at all upon my frosted head-That telegram that brought the news that Father Pat is dead-I cannot grip its message yet; we were such cronies, thatThe world is not a world to-night without poor Father … Continue reading
The Conversation. A Tale (Matthew Prior Poems)
It always has been a thought discreetTo know the company you meet;And sure there may be secret dangerIn talking much before a stranger.Agreed: what then? Then drink your ale;I’ll pledge you, and repeat my tale. No matter where the scene … Continue reading
In Memory of David Archer (LIV) (George Barker Poems)
The words are always asstrange and dead as thosefragments and oddments thatthe wave casts up on the shore:I stand in the sea mistgazing down at the whitewords and old bits of woodand wonder what they were for.I think that they … Continue reading
A Gallery To The Temple. Sciences (Ralph Knevet Poems)
Many their language labour to correct, And for to speake in the best dialect, But few, or none contend Their lives t’amend. Logicke, the art of reason others love, But by their lives, their studyes they disprove, Guided by appetite, Not Reasons light. Some divide numbers by Arithmeticke, To … Continue reading
A Ballad Of Santa Claus (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
For the St. Nicholas Society of New York Among the earliest saints of old, before the first Hegira,I find the one whose name we hold, St. Nicholas of Myra:The best-beloved name, I guess, in sacred nomenclature,-The patron-saint of helpfulness, and … Continue reading
A Man Of Many Parts (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
It was a man of many parts, Who in his coffer mindHad stored the Classics and the Arts And Sciences combined;The purest gems of poesy Came flashing from his pen–The wholesome truths of History He gave his fellow men. He knew the stars from … Continue reading