Immortal Eve – IV (Manmohan Ghose Poems)
1Her eyes were not of amethyst,Her teeth were not of pearl.Human all over, laughing, crying,Shrewd, simple, just a girl!Cheerful at ...
1Her eyes were not of amethyst,Her teeth were not of pearl.Human all over, laughing, crying,Shrewd, simple, just a girl!Cheerful at ...
Throned on the rainbow, goddess Aphrodite,Daughter of Zeus, wile-weaver, I beseech thee,Neither with fears nor sorrows, O thou dread one, Thrall ...
As the caged eagle neared the mountain range, O'er which he oft had soared on pinions strong,He clapped his wings, moved ...
Queen of the South! which the mighty Pacific Claims for its Britain in ages to be,Bright with fair visions and hopes ...
O Charity, divinely wise,Thou meek-ey'd Daughter of the skiesFrom the pure fountain of eternal light,Where fair, immutable, and ever bright,The ...
Shade of Herrick, Muse of Locker,Help me sing of Knickerbocker!Boughton, had you bid me chantHymns to Peter Stuyvesant,Had you bid ...
The storm is done--the lightning with its lustTo rend the unhallowed dome in ruin dire;The purple heaps, from the rank ...
I stand to-day on higher ground Than ever reached before,Yet from this summit I have found, Outlined full many more,Which seem to ...
A Sabbath morn — softly the village bellsRing out their welcome to the sacred day.The weary swain has drunk of ...
Yet once more, Harp of prophecy, once moreFondly I come soliciting thine aid;By whose celestial minstrelsy inspiredThe saintly Enoch walk'd ...
Brief life is here our portion, Brief sorrow, short-lived care: The Life that knows no ending, ...
Under what spell are we debasedBy fears for our inviolate Isle,Whose record is of dangers facedAnd flung to heel with ...
(The refrain is quoted by Edward Fitzgerald inone of his letters)IGrowing, growing, all the glory going;Flashing out of fire and ...
Through what long heaviness, assayed in what strange fire, Have these white monks been brought into the way of ...
On the silent ages breaking Comes the sweet Annunciation:The eternal Ave waking, Changes Eva's condemnation.How at Nazareth the Archangel Hailed ...
AD LYDIAMHorace: Book I., Ode 13._"Quem tu, Lydia, TelephiCervicem roseam, cerea Telephi--"_What time thou yearnest for the arms Of Telephus, ...
'Tis the voice of my sister at home, Resign'd to the treasures above, Inviting the strangers to come, And feast ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
From the depth of the dreamy decline of the dawn through a notable nimbus of nebulous noonshine, Pallid and pink ...
Love, light for me Thy ruddiest blazing torch, That I, albeit a beggar by the Porch Of the glad Palace ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
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