Paris (Alan Seeger Poems)
First, London, for its myriads; for its height, Manhattan heaped in towering stalagmite; But Paris for the smoothness of the ...
First, London, for its myriads; for its height, Manhattan heaped in towering stalagmite; But Paris for the smoothness of the ...
I pray you this my song to takeNot scornfully, for Boyhood's sake;It is the last, until the dayWhen your kind ...
HOLMAN HUNT'S PICTURE OF "CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE."O CHRIST-CHILD, Everlasting, Holy One, Sufferer of all the sorrow of this world, ...
OH AmericaThe sun sets in you.Are you the grave of our day?Shall I come to you, the open tomb of ...
Halleluja!What sound is this across the darkWhile all the earth is sleeping? Hark!Halleluja! Halleluja! Halleluja!Why are thy tender eyes so ...
THE creeds he wrought of dream and thought Fall from him at the touch of life, His old gods fail ...
A LITTLE while, with love and youth, He wandered, singing: -- He felt life's pulses hot and strong Beat all ...
The sun, a heavy spider, spins in the thirsty sky.The wind hides under cactus leaves, in doorway corners. Only the ...
Give me the treble of thy horns and hoofs, The ponderous undertones of 'bus and tram, A garret and a ...
One moment, the slim cloudflakes seem to leanWith their sad sunward faces aureoled,And longing lips set downward brighteningTo take the ...
You came to me bearing bright roses, Red like the wine of your heart; You twisted them into a garland ...
I Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold And very Regent of the untroubled sky, Whom in a dream St. Hilda ...
Her ivory hands on the ivory keys Strayed in a fitful fantasy, Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees ...
Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at ...
The sun, a heavy spider, spins in the thirsty sky. The wind hides under cactus leaves, in doorway corners. Only ...
First, London, for its myriads; for its height, Manhattan heaped in towering stalagmite; But Paris for the smoothness of the ...
Give me the treble of thy horns and hoofs, The ponderous undertones of 'bus and tram, A garret and a ...
"Sow your wild oats in your youth," so we're always told; But I say with deeper sooth: "Sow them when ...
I Flat as a drum-head stretch the haggard snows; The mighty skies are palisades of light; The stars are blurred; ...
I WHO had sought afar from earth The faery land to meet, Now find content within its girth And wonder ...
MARVEL of marvels, if I myself shall behold With mine own eyes my King in His city of gold; Where ...
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