Carmelite (Ambrose Bierce Poems)
As Death was a-riding out one day,Across Mount Carmel he took his way,Where he met a mendicant monk,Some three or ...
As Death was a-riding out one day,Across Mount Carmel he took his way,Where he met a mendicant monk,Some three or ...
As when, on Carmel's sterile steep, The ancient prophet bowed the knee, And seven times sent his servant forth To look toward the ...
Vain folly of another age,This wandering over earth,To find the peace by some dark sinBanish'd our household hearth.On Lebanon the ...
"The priests distributed various coloured silken threads to weave for the veil of the sanctuary; and it fell to Mary's ...
A Rose shall bloom in the lonely place,A wild shall echo with sounds of joy,For heaven's own gladness its bounds ...
A cloud, like that the old-time Hebrew sawOn Carmel prophesying rain, beganTo lift itself o'er wooded Cardigan,Growing and blackening. Suddenly, ...
The fierce musical cries of a couple of sparrowhawks huntingon the headland,Hovering and darting, their heads northwestward,Prick like silver arrows ...
I have a table, cot and chairAnd nothing more. The walls are bareYet I confess that in my roomLie Syrian ...
Green as Machpelah's honored field,Where Jacob and where Leah lie,Where Sharon's shrubs their roses yield,And Carmel's branches wave on high;So ...
A CanticleOh come, ye daughters of Jerusalem!Come with your timbrels and your songs of joy,To hail the sparkling-footed morn, that ...
In Carmel pines the summer windSings like a distant sea.O harps of green, your murmurs findAn echoing chord in me!On ...
PART THE FIRST.IN THELMON'S breast contending passions rise, While, with resentment stung, he proudly flies; The harmonist divine, to madness ...
O meines Lebens goldne zeit.—SchillerO the youth of love and madness! let me sing another songEre the cynic grows upon ...
Ye nymphs of Solyma! begin the song,To heavenly themes sublimer strains belong.The mossy fountains, and the sylvan shades,The dreams of ...
FORSAKEN, desolate,Ah! where is he, The God Eternal, whom our fathers served?A God whose name his children vainly boast, ...
Unto the central height of purple Rome,— The crown of martyrdom,Set as a heart within the passionate plain Of triumph ...
Where art Thou, O my Lord?Mount Carmel saw the throngOf priests and heard the song;To Baal was their call-From morn ...
If you should look for this place after a handful of lifetimes: Perhaps of my planted forest a few May ...
Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach Thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon ...
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
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