The Black Christ (Arthur Shearly Cripps Poems)
PILATE and Ca?aphas They have brought this thing to pass— That a Christ the Father gave, Should be guest within ...
PILATE and Ca?aphas They have brought this thing to pass— That a Christ the Father gave, Should be guest within ...
Restless phantoms haunt my brain! Come and ease my nameless pain, Sleep - sweet sleep. I would own thy gentle ...
Mother of balms and soothings manifold,Quiet-breathed night whose brooding hours are seven,To whom the voices of all rest are given,And ...
The city sits amid her palms; The perfume of her twilight breath Is something as the sacred balms That bound ...
715The World-feels DustyWhen We stop to Die-We want the Dew-then-Honors-taste dry-Flags-vex a Dying face-But the least FanStirred by a friend's ...
Come slowly, EdenLips unused to thee.Bashful, sip thy jasmines,As the fainting bee,Reaching late his flower,Round her chamber hums,Counts his nectars ...
"Speak! speak I thou fearful guest Who, with thy hollow breast Still in rude armor drest, Comest to daunt me! ...
HIGH-SPIRITED friend, I send nor balms nor cor'sives to your wound: Your fate hath found A gentler and more agile ...
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
As in some countries far remote from hence The wretched creature destined to die, Having the judgement due to his ...
The World -- feels Dusty When We stop to Die -- We want the Dew -- then -- Honors -- ...
Come slowly -- Eden! Lips unused to Thee -- Bashful -- sip thy Jessamines -- As the fainting Bee -- ...
Arrows enamored of his Heart -- Forgot to rankle there And Venoms he mistook for Balms disdained to rankle there ...
Above Oblivion's Tide there is a Pier And an effaceless "Few" are lifted there -- Nay -- lift themselves -- ...
Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal ...
From the depth of the dreamy decline of the dawn through a notable nimbus of nebulous noonshine, Pallid and pink ...
URNS and odours bring away! Vapours, sighs, darken the day! Our dole more deadly looks than dying; Balms and gums ...
Love is enough: while ye deemed him a-sleeping, There were signs of his coming and sounds of his feet; His ...
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
From cold Norse caves or buccaneer Southern seas Oft come repenting tempests here to die; Bewailing old-time wrecks and robberies, ...
To-day the woods are trembling through and through With shimmering forms, that flash before my view, Then melt in green ...
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