The Last Adventure (Jan Struther Poems)
You think yourselves the adventurous ones, you young ones,And us becalmed, torpid, our days uneventful,Our blood stagnant, our minds' antennae ...
You think yourselves the adventurous ones, you young ones,And us becalmed, torpid, our days uneventful,Our blood stagnant, our minds' antennae ...
Ostracized as we are with GodThe watchers of the civilized wastesreverse their signals on our track Lepers of the moonall magically ...
Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs Be echoed swiftly through that ivory shell Thine ear, and find thy ...
On Egypt sleeping under sky of brassThe twain gazed wistfully from terrace high,And watched the Flood, through Delta rolling high,Toward ...
But not all unprepared were found the Medes. With restless foot, Belesis through the night, Still to and fro had ...
'Twas on the morning of that fateful day When Cyrus met on Thymbra's spacious plain The mighty host by wealthy ...
Throughout the city, and the lands around, Soon ran the rumour that, from Israel's God, Moses a word had brought ...
THE holy bell, untouched by human hands, Clanged suddenly, and tolled with solemn knell.Between the massive, blazoned temple-doors,Thrown wide, to ...
Above the bones St. Ursula owns,And those of the virgins she chaperons; Above the ...
{Bonduca the British queen, taking occasion from a defeat of the Romans to impeach their valor, is rebuked by Caratac.}Queen ...
Within a house of public entertainment There sat an ebon slave close at the foot Of a heavy chair topping ...
Wake! children of France! shall your tyrant forever Enslave and enchain you, and trample you down? Do you fear the ...
Where is Love? Oh! rather, name the spot ...
On sunny slope and beechen swell, The shadowed light of evening fell; And, where the maple's leaf was brown, With ...
Had I a man's fair form, then might my sighs Be echoed swiftly through that ivory shell, Thine ear, and ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
I. He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley's ...
God knows how our neighbor managed to breed His great sow: Whatever his shrewd secret, he kept it hid In ...
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