The Country of the Blind (C. S. Lewis Poem)
Hard light bathed them-a whole nation of eyeless men, Dark bipeds not aware how they were maimed. A long Process, ...
Hard light bathed them-a whole nation of eyeless men, Dark bipeds not aware how they were maimed. A long Process, ...
When first we faced, and touching showed How well we knew the early moves, Behind the moonlight and the frost, ...
When the wars of the world seemed ended, and silent the distant drum, Ten years ago in Australia, I wrote ...
(1) and off to scott's (the dockers' restaurant) burly men packed in round solid tables but what the helle (drowned ...
The squabbling in Corinth the followers divided forgetting their Master that all of them together that they all belonged to ...
Like the fishermen, the first disciples, leaving their nets, their boats, their families, leaving their shepherd, the one crying in ...
They belonged to John watching him in the desert, the wilderness; But they left him To follow the Christ, the ...
What does it mean to be in exile, when there is no foreign army no conquering horde coming over the ...
We see -- Comparatively -- The Thing so towering high We could not grasp its segment Unaided -- Yesterday -- ...
If ever the lid gets off my head And lets the brain away The fellow will go where he belonged ...
Growing up, I propose, is like wearing a dead man's clothes. Death has a way of levelling the ground. I ...
At dawn I dreamed of wispy clouds, I had the time to wield and watched the regimented lines of cirrus ...
He said that he had hurt himself on a wall or that he had fallen. But there was probably another ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
PREFACE If---and the thing is wildly possible---the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
You have heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred ...
'This envelope you say has something in it Which once belonged to your dead son-or something He knew, was fond ...
The moment when, after many years of hard work and a long voyage you stand in the centre of your ...
Come all you little rouseabouts and climb upon my knee; To-day, you see, is Christmas Day, and so it's up ...
They held a polo meeting at a little country town, And all the local sportsmen came to win themselves renown. ...
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars, and the ...
North Berwick is a watering-place with golfing links green, With a fine bathing beach most lovely to be seen; And ...
on someone else's place it seems to him the land slings distance way out the dirt is dead and the ...
When the master was calling the roll At the primary school in Collegelands, You were meant to call back Anseo ...
A little child stood thinking, sorrowfully and ill at ease, In a forest beneath the branches of the tall pine ...
A pathetic tale of the sea I will unfold, Enough to make one's blood run cold; Concerning four fishermen cast ...
I had no objection at all To selling my household effects at auction On the village square. It gave my ...
I belonged to the church, And to the party of prohibition; And the villagers thought I died of eating watermelon. ...
The sun came up before breakfast, perfectly round and yellow, and we dressed in the soft light and shook out ...
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