The Garden By The Bridge (Laurence Hope Poems)
The Desert sands are heated, parched and dreary, The tigers rend alive their quivering preyIn the near Jungle; here the kites ...
The Desert sands are heated, parched and dreary, The tigers rend alive their quivering preyIn the near Jungle; here the kites ...
Here in these mellow grasses, the whole morn,I love to rest; yonder, the ripening cornRustles its greenery; and his blithesome ...
Shell, whose lips, than mine more cold,Might with Dian's ear make bold,Seek my Lady's; if thou winTo that portal, shut ...
Kicking my heels in the street,Here at the edge of the pavement I wait for you, sweet,Here in the crowd, ...
First, two white arms that held him very close,And ever closer as he drew him backReluctantly, the loose gold-colored hairA ...
We shall come tomorrow morning, who were not to have her love,We shall bring no face of envy but a ...
Have patience, O my sorrow, and be still.You asked for night: it falls: it is here.A shadowy atmosphere enshrouds the ...
Over the great windy waters, and over the clear-crested summits, Unto the sun and the sky, and unto the perfecter ...
God's armies of Heaven, with pinions extended,Spread wide their white arms to the standard of Light;And bending far down to ...
Yon, in the depths of the evening's track,Like a herd of blind bullocks that seek their fellows,Wild, as in terror, ...
There stood a low and ivied roof,As gazing rustics tell,In times of chivalry and song'Yclept the holy well.Above the ivies' ...
I am the outer gate of life where sit Faith and Unfaith, those two interpreters That spell ...
A bridge for kings to cross the skies,an archway for a city street -a wonder even to the wise;Strange - ...
Far removed from strife and war Is the shrine of Kilmelchedor; O'er one crumbling archway see Clearly graven--_Domine!_ Master then ...
Now what in the name of the sun and the stars Is the meaning of this most unholy of wars? ...
August First: it was a year ago we drove down from St.-Guilhem-le-Désert to open the house in St. Guiraud rented ...
THIS is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main,-- The venturous bark that flings On the ...
Out of nothing there comes a time called childhood, which is simply a path leading through an archway called adolescence. ...
The brave Geraint, a knight of Arthur's court, A tributary prince of Devon, one Of that great Order of the ...
The ArgumentA certain man having landed on an island in the Greek sea, found there a beautifuldamsel, whom he would ...
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