As In Their Flight The Birds Of Song (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
AS in their flight the birds of song Halt here and there in sweet and sunny dales, But halt not ...
AS in their flight the birds of song Halt here and there in sweet and sunny dales, But halt not ...
NOW bare to the beholder's eye Your late denuded bindings lie, Subsiding slowly where they fell, A disinvested citadel; The ...
AS one who having wandered all night long In a perplexed forest, comes at length In the first hours, about ...
SINCE thou hast given me this good hope, O God, That while my footsteps tread the flowery sod And the ...
BEHOLD, as goblins dark of mien And portly tyrants dyed with crime Change, in the transformation scene, At Christmas, in ...
Of speckled eggs the birdie sings And nests among the trees; The sailor sings of ropes and things In ships ...
DEATH, to the dead for evermore A King, a God, the last, the best of friends - Whene'er this mortal ...
STRANGE are the ways of men, And strange the ways of God! We tread the mazy paths That all our ...
WITH caws and chirrupings, the woods In this thin sun rejoice. The Psalm seems but the little kirk That sings ...
YES, friend, I own these tales of Arabia Smile not, as smiled their flawless originals, Age-old but yet untamed, for ...
WHETHER upon the garden seat You lounge with your uplifted feet Under the May's whole Heaven of blue; Or whether ...
CLINKUM-CLANK in the rain they ride, Down by the braes and the grey sea-side; Clinkum-clank by stane and cairn, Weary ...
FEAR not, dear friend, but freely live your days Though lesser lives should suffer. Such am I, A lesser life, ...
AGAIN I hear you piping, for I know the tune so well, - You rouse the heart to wander and ...
FIXED is the doom; and to the last of years Teacher and taught, friend, lover, parent, child, Each walks, though ...
Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the ...
GOD gave to me a child in part, Yet wholly gave the father's heart: Child of my soul, O whither ...
THE wind is without there and howls in the trees, And the rain-flurries drum on the glass: Alone by the ...
Then the bright lamp is carried in, The sunless hours again begin; O'er all without, in field and lane, The ...
I should like to rise and go Where the golden apples grow;-- Where below another sky Parrot islands anchored lie, ...
HAIL! Childish slaves of social rules You had yourselves a hand in making! How I could shake your faith, ye ...
WHAT man may learn, what man may do, Of right or wrong of false or true, While, skipper-like, his course ...
YOU, Charidemus, who my cradle swung, And watched me all the days that I was young; You, at whose step ...
WHEN the sun comes after rain And the bird is in the blue, The girls go down the lane Two ...
IT'S forth across the roaring foam, and on towards the west, It's many a lonely league from home, o'er many ...
Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, ...
MAN sails the deep awhile; Loud runs the roaring tide; The seas are wild and wide; O'er many a salt, ...
All night long and every night, When my mama puts out the light, I see the people marching by, As ...
MEN are Heaven's piers; they evermore Unwearying bear the skyey floor; Man's theatre they bear with ease, Unfrowning cariatides! I, ...
MOTLEY I count the only wear That suits, in this mixed world, the truly wise, Who boldly smile upon despair ...
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