The Cool Web (Robert Graves Poem)
Children are dumb to say how hot the day is, How hot the scent is of the summer rose, How ...
Children are dumb to say how hot the day is, How hot the scent is of the summer rose, How ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
A house that lacks, seemingly, mistress and master, With doors that none but the wind ever closes, Its floor all ...
Give me truths, For I am weary of the surfaces, And die of inanition. If I knew Only the herbs ...
So like a flower and a current of air the flow of water fleeting shadows the smile glimpsed at midnight ...
When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as ...
The Midnight wooed the Morning Star, And prayed her: "Love come nearer; Your swinging coldly there afar To me but ...
I am standing under the mistletoe, And I smile, but no answering smile replies For her haughty glance bids me ...
NOT in scorn do I reprove thee, Not in pride thy vows I waive, But, believe, I could not love ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow ; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And ...
The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow ; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And ...
Love's worshippers alone can know The thousand mysteries that are his; His blazing torch, his twanging bow, His blooming age ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
And wilt thou weep when I am low? Sweet lady! speak those words again: Yet if they grieve thee, say ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
I My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
No, I shall not say why it is that I love you- Why do you ask me, save for vanity? ...
From time to time, lifting his eyes, he sees The soft blue starlight through the one small window, The moon ...
1 Senlin sits before us, and we see him. He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him. Is ...
1 Senlin sits before us, and we see him. He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him. Is ...
I. (Bread and Music) Music I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was ...
Coldly, sadly descends The autumn-evening. The field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of wither'd leaves, and the elms, Fade ...
Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below! Now my brothers call from the bay, Now the great ...
HEARKEN, oh hearken! let your souls behind you Turn, gently moved! Our voices feel along the Dread to find you, ...
I think that look of Christ might seem to say-- 'Thou Peter ! art thou then a common stone Which ...
Is it indeed so? If I lay here dead, Wouldst thou miss any life in losing mine? And would the ...
O Rose! who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet; But pale, and hard, and ...
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