Festus – XIV (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Even while a starMight twinkle twice, or calm, retiring sea,Irresolute yet to leave, his moonlit kissShimmering repeat upon the impassive ...
Even while a starMight twinkle twice, or calm, retiring sea,Irresolute yet to leave, his moonlit kissShimmering repeat upon the impassive ...
Since quite a boy Hal Gradient had beenNoted for ingenuity--betweenThe hours when not on active duty heImmersed in some new ...
E. H. M.Nov. 17th, 1890-Feb. 13th, 1904Still he lies,Pale, wan, and strangely wise.Under the white coverletHe lies here sleeping yet,Though ...
"He is the freeman whom the Truth makes free;All else are slaves," I cry aloud to thee,O Garibaldi! in the ...
When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown,Stealthily and perpetually ...
When dull November's misty shroud, All Nature's charms depress,Flinging a damp, dark, deadening cloud, O'er each heart's joyousness.Our fancies quit their lighter ...
FROM the squat tavern laughing to the eastHe turned; within the murmuring babbleceas'd;And red wine split on scattered roses thereExhaled ...
A LEGENDIN midst of wide green pasture-lands, cut through By lines of alders bordering deep-banked streams, Where bulrushes ...
(_By Sir Giles, whom the Witch of Urm leads to Judas Iscariot_) Against a castle moated gloomily by a bitter ...
Osculo oris sui osculetur me.Christ, for whose only Love I keep me cleanAmong the palaces of Babylon,I would not Thou ...
Now is the season of Carnival. Who's for the sunlit course?Who's for the beat of galloping feet And the day ...
I will find out a place for thee, O Sleep-A hidden wood among the hill-tops green,Full of soft streams and ...
I had no thought of violets of late,The wild, shy kind that spring beneath your feetIn wistful April days, when ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
Oh, thy bright eyes must answer now, When Reason, with a scornful brow, Is mocking at my overthrow! Oh, thy ...
O, thy bright eyes must answer now, When Reason, with a scornful brow, Is mocking at my overthrow! O, thy ...
I don't Know if history repeats itself But I do know that you don't. I remember that city was didvided ...
(With much help from Robert Good, William Shakespeare, John Milton, and little Catherine Schwartz) Shall I compare her to a ...
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