The Emigrant (Andrew Belfrage Picken Poems)
We sat alone in a trellised bower,And gaz'd o'er the dark'ning deep;And the holy calm of that twilight hourCame over ...
We sat alone in a trellised bower,And gaz'd o'er the dark'ning deep;And the holy calm of that twilight hourCame over ...
(Erinna was a Greek poetess, a friend and pupil of Sappho of Lesbos. She died at the age of nineteen.) ...
O to be a woman! to be left to pique and pine,When the winds are out and calling to this ...
'Er keel was laid in Seventy-four,Let 'er go — let 'er go!They built 'er cheap, an' they scamped 'er sore,'Er ...
In a breaker's yard by the Millwall Docks,With its piled-up litter of sheaveless blocks,Stranded hawsers and links of cable,A cabin ...
The breeze was fresh, the ship was in stays,Each breaker hush'd, the shore a haze,When Jack, no more on duty ...
DON'T go there at cockshut. None on us goBy yon track, for it's haunted. Didn't you know-Up on Scragg Head ...
CAPE ANN, SEPTEMBER SURF. 1882.White fire upon the gray-green waste of waves,The low light of the breaker flares. Ah, see!Outbursting ...
'When this 'ere war is done (says Dan) an' all the fighting's through,There's some will pal with Fritz again as ...
What is your want, perpetual invalidWhose fist is always beating on my breast'sBone wall, incurable dictator of my houseAnd breaker ...
Unkind spring is here nowwith sun on roof and wallyour eyes run and your head isemptier than a blown eggyou ...
I am the Reaper. All things with heedful hook Silent I gather. Pale roses touched with the spring, Tall corn ...
I love to lick English the way I licked the hard round licorice sticks the Belgian nuns gave me for ...
A city clerk, but gently born and bred; His wife, an unknown artist's orphan child-- One babe was theirs, a ...
From noiseful arms, and acts of prowess done In tournament or tilt, Sir Percivale, Whom Arthur and his knighthood called ...
Athelstan King, Lord among Earls, Bracelet-bestower and Baron of Barons, He with his brother, Edmund Atheling, Gaining a lifelong Glory ...
Leodogran, the King of Cameliard, Had one fair daughter, and none other child; And she was the fairest of all ...
Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm; And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands; Beyond, red ...
'There sinks the nebulous star we call the Sun, If that hypothesis of theirs be sound' Said Ida; 'let us ...
I am the maker, The builder, the breaker, The eagle-winged helper, The speedy forsaker! The lance and the lyre, The ...
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