Glaucus (John Gneisenau Neihardt Poems)
GLAUCUS, the fisher, sat his tossing craft:The sun was dying on the Roman lake,And, save where Day, departing, grimly laughed,The ...
GLAUCUS, the fisher, sat his tossing craft:The sun was dying on the Roman lake,And, save where Day, departing, grimly laughed,The ...
Man was made of social earth,Child and brother from his birth;Tethered by a liquid cordOf blood through veins of kindred ...
Of woman was I born, and man I am.I come to teach the greatest, yet the most meekOf all true ...
A hundred years! The very phraseUnsepultures the million'd dead;Three generations in that space,Ghosts of the past, have breathed and fled.Time ...
Out of the dread eternities, The vast abyss of night,A glorious pageant rose and shone, And passed from human sight.We saw the ...
He stands above all worldly schism, And, gazing over life's abysm, Beholds within the starry range Of heaven laws of death and change, That, ...
O SCOFFER! He who from the crossLooked down thy dark abysm of loss,And knew His pain alone could winSuch souls ...
SOON shall you come as the dawn from the dumb abysm of night,Traveler birthward, Hastener earthward out of the gloom!Soon ...
Far in the purple valleys of illusionI see her waiting, like the soul of music,With deep eyes, lovelier than cerulean ...
One sweetly solemn thought Comes to me o'er and o'er;I am nearer home to-day Than I ever have been before;Nearer my Father's house, ...
THE SAME CONTINUEDA poet cannot strive for despotism;His harp falls shattered; for it still must beThe instinct of great spirits ...
WAINAMOINEN FINDS THE LOST-WORD.Wainamoinen, old and truthful,Did not learn the words of magicIn Tuoni's gloomy regions,In the kingdom of Manala.Thereupon ...
CLARICE awoke next morning with the sense That something she had found, and something lost; A little pain she felt, ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
Since I have set my lips to your full cup, my sweet, Since I my pallid face between your hands ...
Man was made of social earth, Child and brother from his birth; Tethered by a liquid cord Of blood through ...
Crowned, girdled, garbed and shod with light and fire, Son first-born of the morning, sovereign star! Soul nearest ours of ...
Before those cruel twins whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth, had hunted ...
Your love and pity doth th' impression fill Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow; For what care I who ...
Your love and pity doth the impression fill Which vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow; For what care I who ...
I leaned against the mantel, sick, sick, Thinking of my failure, looking into the abysm, Weak from the noon-day heat. ...
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