The Rope-Maker (Emile Verhaeren Poems)
In his village greyAt foot of the dykes, that encompass himWith weary weaving of curves and linesToward the sea outstretching ...
In his village greyAt foot of the dykes, that encompass himWith weary weaving of curves and linesToward the sea outstretching ...
Yon, in the depths of the evening's track,Like a herd of blind bullocks that seek their fellows,Wild, as in terror, ...
Ay, shout! 'Tis the day of your pride,Ye despots and tyrants of earth! Tell your serfs the American name to ...
Sleep, little baby! sleep! Not in thy cradle bed,Not on thy mother's breastHenceforth shall be thy rest, ...
There is a certain castle that is beautiful and fair,And plants, and birds, and pretty things, fill every room and ...
On London fell a clearer light;Caressing pencils of the sunDefined the distances, the whiteHouses transfigured one by one,The 'long, unlovely ...
Just as the hay-fields on the cliff-top draw Seafarers---yea, two miles away from land! Bringing sweet thoughts of many a ...
And yet it moves! Ah, Truth, where wert thou thenWhen all for thee they racked each piteous limb?Wert thou in ...
Priapus, with his god's virility, With woman's breads that passionately rise, His eyes convulsed with sinister irony, His mouth that ...
A snake came to my water-trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pyjamas for the heat, To drink ...
I. Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye! They could not in the self-same mansion ...
Something different, particular a May shower, the other day, not July; certainly not March a specific sound, a definite smell ...
I've quenched my lamp, I struck it in that start Which every limb convulsed, I heard it fall The crash ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
I. How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn-evenings come: And where, my soul, ...
Through that window-all else being extinct Except itself and me-I saw the struggle Of darkness against darkness. Within the room ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
Their strength had fed on this when Death's white arms Came sleeved in vapors and miasmal dew, Curling across the ...
I am banished from the patient men who fight They smote my heart to pity, built my pride. Shoulder to ...
Swift as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory & of good, the Sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his ...
A message from her set his brain aflame. A world of household matters filled her mind, Wherein he saw hypocrisy ...
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