Sanctuary Scorned [1936] (C J Dennis Poems)
Oh, is there not one place on earthWhere man's goodwill has gone from birthThro' adolescence, with its rage,Into a kindly, ...
Oh, is there not one place on earthWhere man's goodwill has gone from birthThro' adolescence, with its rage,Into a kindly, ...
Full many lift and singTheir sweet imagining;Not yet the Lyric Seer,The one bard of the throng,With highest gift of song,Breaks ...
(A Hope.)BEFORE our eyes a pageant rolledWhose banners every land unfurled;And as it passed, its splendors toldThe art and glory ...
No tread of armed men; No lightning-flash, and then The thunder's roar! No life-blood ebbing fast; No bugle's rallying blast; ...
Though each one has a head of wood,Theirs is a wiser brotherhoodThan any man has understood:The giant sequoia, with his ...
Apart sweet women (for whom Heaven be blessed), Comrades, you cannot think how thin and blue Look the leftovers of ...
You, the choice minions of the proud-lipped nine Who warble at the great Apollo's knee, Why do you laugh at ...
Down the street as I was drifting with the city's human tide, Came a ghost, and for a moment walked ...
The Four Archangels, so the legends tell, Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, Azrael, Being first of those to whom the Power was ...
I. Soon Of all the springtimes of the world This one is the ugliest Of all of my ways of ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Out-Worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the ...
This English Thames is holier far than Rome, Those harebells like a sudden flush of sea Breaking across the woodland, ...
1 O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman! Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds! Such join'd unended links, each hook'd ...
Apart sweet women (for whom Heaven be blessed), Comrades, you cannot think how thin and blue Look the leftovers of ...
Yet one Song more! one high and solemn strain Ere PAEAN! on thy temple's ruined wall I hang the silent ...
"Lord God of Hosts," the people pray, "Make strong our arms that we may slay Our cursed foe and win ...
IN summer time, with high imaginings Of proud Crusaders and of Paynim kings, The children crowned themselves with famous names, ...
I did not think that I should find them there When I came back again; but there they stood, As ...
When Fort Sumter fell and the war came I cried out in bitterness of soul: "O glorious republic now no ...
My friends without shields walk on the target It is late the windows are breaking My friends without shoes leave ...
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