Festus – XLII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
The soul--state, intermediate 'twixt earth's lifeAnd the world future, unconceived till seen,We search with curious awe; mark dormant death;Nor, joyless, ...
The soul--state, intermediate 'twixt earth's lifeAnd the world future, unconceived till seen,We search with curious awe; mark dormant death;Nor, joyless, ...
Thence earthward tending, first we make the sun;Where, as at rest in light, a mediate point,A bright effect original of ...
From an ode "In Commemoration of the Founding of theMassachusetts Bay Colony."The morn that breaks its heart of goldAbove the ...
YE shadowy forms, again ye're drawing near,So wont of yore to meet my troubled gaze!Were it in vain to seek ...
Not the Prussian, the forsworn,By whose fury overborne,Martyred Belgium, you lieBruised with all injury.Through your peace red paths he clove,Burning, ...
Deep in my hidden country stands a peak,and none hath known its nameand none, save I, hath even skill to ...
O'ER boundless fields of night, lo, near and far Light, dewdrop's blink, and Light, Aeonian star. Wan wraiths that flickering roam by ...
Hear'st thou that sound upon the window pane?Said the youth softly, as outstretched he layWhere for an hour outstretched he ...
To G.E.M.'Tis a little room, my friend—Baby walks from end to end;All the things look sadly realThis hot noontide unideal;Vaporous ...
A clock aeonian, steady and tall,With its back to creation's flaming wall,Stands at the foot of a dim, wide stair.Swing, ...
FIVE mites of monads dwelt in a round drop That twinkled on a leaf by a pool in the sun. ...
Like a worm-fretted visage from the tomb,The moon unswathes her hollow, shrunken head,Launching such light as foulders on the deadFrom ...
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