Gloria Mundi (Walter de la Mare Poems)
Upon a bank, easeless with knobs of gold,Beneath a canopy of noonday smoke,I saw a measureless Beast, morose and bold,With ...
Upon a bank, easeless with knobs of gold,Beneath a canopy of noonday smoke,I saw a measureless Beast, morose and bold,With ...
Jagg'd mountain peaks and skies ice-greenWall in the wild, cold scene below.Churches, farms, bare copse, the seaIn freezing quiet of ...
As I was walking,Thyme sweet to my nose,Green grasshoppers talking,Rose rivalling rose:And wing, like amber,Dispread in light,As from bush to ...
As I mused by the hearthside,Puss said to me;'there burns the fire , man,and here sit we.Four walls around usagainst ...
I can't abear a butcher,I can't abide his meat,The ugliest shop of all is his,The ugliest in the street;Bakers' are ...
All but blindIn his chambered hole,Gropes for wormsThe four-clawed mole.All but blindIn the burning day,The barn owlBlunders on her way.And ...
Hi! Handsome hunting man,Fire your little gun,Bang! Now that animalIs dead and dumb and done.Never more to peep again, creep ...
When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes, Nor the rain make lamentation When the ...
In sea-cold Lyonesse, When the Sabbath eve shafts down On the roofs, walls, belfries Of the foundered town, The Nereids ...
Wide are the meadows of night, And daisies are shinng there, Tossing their lovely dews, Lustrous and fair; And through ...
One night as Dick lay half asleep, Into his drowsy eyes A great still light began to creep From out ...
If I were Lord of Tartary, Myself, and me alone, My bed should be of ivory, Of beaten gold my ...
When the rose is faded, Memory may still dwell on Her beauty shadowed, And the sweet smell gone. That vanishing ...
The last of last words spoken is, Good-bye - The last dismantled flower in the weed-grown hedge, The last thin ...
Come, Death, I'd have a word with thee; And thou, poor Innocency; And Love -- a lad with broken wing; ...
Ever, ever Stir and shiver The reeds and rushes By the river: Ever, ever, As if in dream, The lone ...
Nay, nay, sweet England, do not grieve! Not one of these poor men who died But did within his soul ...
Peace in thy hands, Peace in thine eyes, Peace on thy brow; Flower of a moment in the eternal hour, ...
Clouded with snow The cold winds blow, And shrill on leafless bough The robin with its burning breast Alone sings ...
"Once...Once upon a time..." Over and over again, Martha would tell us her stories, In the hazel glen. Hers were ...
Three jolly gentlemen, In coats of red, Rode their horses Up to bed. Three jolly gentlemen Snored till morn, Their ...
Three and thirty birds there stood In an elder in a wood; Called Melmillo -- flew off three, Leaving thirty ...
While at her bedroom window once, Learning her task for school, Little Louisa lonely sat In the morning clear and ...
When thin-strewn memory I look through, I see most clearly poor Miss Loo, Her tabby cat, her cage of birds, ...
"Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the ...
When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovely things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in ...
'Won't you look out of your window, Mrs. Gill?' Quoth the Fairy, nidding, nodding in the garden; 'Can't you look ...
A song of Enchantment I sang me there, In a green-green wood, by waters fair, Just as the words came ...
'What is the world, O soldiers? It is I: I, this incessant snow, This northern sky; Soldiers, this solitude Through ...
I was at peace until you came And set a careless mind aflame; I lived in quiet; cold, content; All ...
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