The Carver In Stone (John Drinkwater Poems)
He was a man with wide and patient eyes,Grey, like the drift of twitch-fires blown in June,That, without fearing, searched ...
He was a man with wide and patient eyes,Grey, like the drift of twitch-fires blown in June,That, without fearing, searched ...
IIn a nation of one hundred fine, mob-hearted, lynching, relenting, repenting millions,There are plenty of sweeping, swinging, stinging, gorgeous things ...
Argument:"Mary, Mary, quite contrary,How does your garden grow?Silver bells and cockle shellsAnd fair maids all in a row."Isolt the White, ...
TO J F HNine years have slipt like hour-glass sandFrom life's still-emptying globe away,Since last, dear friend, I clasped your ...
All day he drowses by the sailWith dreams of her, and all night longThe broken waters are at songOf how ...
This is a land of forests, and of meresStirless and deep, replenished with my tears.Here the pine harps, and many ...
A female I by name, Am sister to a brother:In all the world may not bee found, Our like, nor one nor ...
O For a garden of the olden time Where none but long-familiar flowers grow, Where pebbled paths go winding to and fro,And ...
Little heads are sleeping all,While within the darkened hallHang their hats upon the wall;Like the little hives arow,Where bee-fancies to ...
I If I were in Japan today, In little Japan today, I'd watch the sampan-rowers ride On Yokohama ...
The Perse owt off Northombarlonde,And a vowe to God mayd heThat he wold hunte in the mowntaynsOff Chyviat within days ...
IShe was spoken off Saint Vincent, outward bound . . .Some lumber-laden barque from Puget Sound,Heaving her sodden deck-load through ...
I.WHO hath known the ways of time Or trodden behind his feet? There is no such ...
OH, the shambling sea is a sexton old,And well his work is done.With an equal grave for lord and knave,He ...
You had two girls — Baptiste — One is Virginie —Hold hard — Baptiste!Listen to me.The whole drive was jammedIn ...
John Company's ships, they sailed the seas —The Merchant's Hope and the Trade's Increase ,Globe and Dragon and Hector too,Thames ...
Far above us where a jayScreams his matins to the day,Capped with gold and amethyst,Like a vapour from the forgeOf ...
In the high halls of morning, Where the red dawnlights glow,On the threshold of sunrise Four buglers stand arow,In the ...
I closed and drew for my love's sake That now is false to me, And I slew the Reiver of ...
We've drunk to the Queen -- God bless her! -- We've drunk to our mothers' land; We've drunk to our ...
You had two girls -- Baptiste -- One is Virginie -- Hold hard -- Baptiste! Listen to me. The whole ...
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