De Erotio Puella (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
THIS girl was sweeter than the song of swans, And daintier than the lamb upon the lawns Or Curine oyster. ...
THIS girl was sweeter than the song of swans, And daintier than the lamb upon the lawns Or Curine oyster. ...
FEAR not, dear friend, but freely live your days Though lesser lives should suffer. Such am I, A lesser life, ...
Dear Uncle Jim. this garden ground That now you smoke your pipe around, has seen immortal actions done And valiant ...
IN the highlands, in the country places, Where the old plain men have rosy faces, And the young fair maidens ...
LOVE - what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair. Life - ...
When the golden day is done, Through the closing portal, Child and garden, Flower and sun, Vanish all things mortal. ...
Of speckled eggs the birdie sings And nests among the trees; The sailor sings of ropes and things In ships ...
STRANGE are the ways of men, And strange the ways of God! We tread the mazy paths That all our ...
When I was sick and lay a-bed, I had two pillows at my head, And all my toys beside me ...
THIS gloomy northern day, Or this yet gloomier night, Has moved a something high In my cold heart; and I, ...
YOU remember, I suppose, How the August sun arose, And how his face Woke to trill and carolette All the ...
All night long and every night, When my mama puts out the light, I see the people marching by, As ...
We built a ship upon the stairs All made of the back-bedroom chairs, And filled it full of soft pillows ...
AS in their flight the birds of song Halt here and there in sweet and sunny dales, But halt not ...
MY Martial owns a garden, famed to please, Beyond the glades of the Hesperides; Along Janiculum lies the chosen block ...
FIXED is the doom; and to the last of years Teacher and taught, friend, lover, parent, child, Each walks, though ...
COME, my little children, here are songs for you; Some are short and some are long, and all, all are ...
With half a heart I wander here As from an age gone by A brother yet- though young in years, ...
AS Love and Hope together Walk by me for a while, Link-armed the ways they travel For many a pleasant ...
NOW bare to the beholder's eye Your late denuded bindings lie, Subsiding slowly where they fell, A disinvested citadel; The ...
SMALL is the trust when love is green In sap of early years; A little thing steps in between And ...
Great is the sun, and wide he goes Through empty heaven with repose; And in the blue and glowing days ...
From breakfast on through all the day At home among my friends I stay, But every night I go abroad ...
THOU strainest through the mountain fern, A most exiguously thin Burn. For all thy foam, for all thy din, Thee ...
WHEN my young lady has grown great and staid, And in long raiment wondrously arrayed, She may take pleasure with ...
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 ...
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