Man Sails The Deep Awhile (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
MAN sails the deep awhile; Loud runs the roaring tide; The seas are wild and wide; O'er many a salt, ...
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 ...
Little Indian, Sioux, or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, Oh! don't you wish that you were me? ...
I. I DREAMED of forest alleys fair And fields of gray-flowered grass, Where by the yellow summer moon My Jenny ...
We see you as we see a face That trembles in a forest place Upon the mirror of a pool ...
MEN are Heaven's piers; they evermore Unwearying bear the skyey floor; Man's theatre they bear with ease, Unfrowning cariatides! I, ...
ON now, although the year be done, Now, although the love be dead, Dead and gone; Hear me, O loved ...
NOR judge me light, tho' light at times I seem, And lightly in the stress of fortune bear The innumerable ...
YES, friend, I own these tales of Arabia Smile not, as smiled their flawless originals, Age-old but yet untamed, for ...
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