After Reading Antony and Cleopatra (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
AS when the hunt by holt and fieldDrives on with horn and strife,Hunger of hopeless things pursuesOur spirits throughout life.The ...
AS when the hunt by holt and fieldDrives on with horn and strife,Hunger of hopeless things pursuesOur spirits throughout life.The ...
It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink, With little children saying grace In ...
AS one who having wandered all night long In a perplexed forest, comes at length In the first hours, about ...
YOU fear, Ligurra - above all, you long - That I should smite you with a stinging song. This dreadful ...
FLOWER god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in ...
I AM like one that for long days had sate, With seaward eyes set keen against the gale, On some ...
IT blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews ...
MAN sails the deep awhile; Loud runs the roaring tide; The seas are wild and wide; O'er many a salt, ...
NOW when the number of my years Is all fulfilled, and I From sedentary life Shall rouse me up to ...
SO live, so love, so use that fragile hour, That when the dark hand of the shining power Shall one ...
SWALLOWS travel to and fro, And the great winds come and go, And the steady breezes blow, Bearing perfume, bearing ...
At evening when the lamp is lit, Around the fire my parents sit; They sit at home and talk and ...
THOUGH deep indifference should drowse The sluggish life beneath my brows, And all the external things I see Grow snow-showers ...
NOT thine where marble-still and white Old statues share the tempered light And mock the uneven modern flight, But in ...
MOTLEY I count the only wear That suits, in this mixed world, the truly wise, Who boldly smile upon despair ...
AT last she comes, O never more In this dear patience of my pain To leave me lonely as before, ...
NOW Antoninus, in a smiling age, Counts of his life the fifteenth finished stage. The rounded days and the safe ...
WHEN Thomas set this tablet here, Time laughed at the vain chanticleer; And ere the moss had dimmed the stone, ...
I DO not fear to own me kin To the glad clods in which spring flowers begin; Or to my ...
IT'S forth across the roaring foam, and on towards the west, It's many a lonely league from home, o'er many ...
Bring the comb and play upon it! Marching, here we come! Willie cocks his highland bonnet, Johnnie beats the drum. ...
O DULL cold northern sky, O brawling sabbath bells, O feebly twittering Autumn bird that tells The year is like ...
As in the hostel by the bridge I sate, Nailed with indifference fondly deemed complete, And (O strange chance, more ...
Every night my prayers I say, And get my dinner every day; And every day that I've been good, I ...
When at home alone I sit And am very tired of it, I have just to shut my eyes To ...
TO all that love the far and blue: Whether, from dawn to eve, on foot The fleeing corners ye pursue, ...
I SEND to you, commissioners, A paper that may please ye, sirs (For troth they say it might be worse ...
ABOUT the sheltered garden ground The trees stand strangely still. The vale ne'er seemed so deep before, Nor yet so ...
When I was down beside the sea A wooden spade they gave to me To dig the sandy shore. My ...
DEATH, to the dead for evermore A King, a God, the last, the best of friends - Whene'er this mortal ...
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