Before Dawn (Amy Lowell Poem)
Life! Austere arbiter of each man's fate, By whom he learns that Nature's steadfast laws Are as decrees immutable; O ...
Life! Austere arbiter of each man's fate, By whom he learns that Nature's steadfast laws Are as decrees immutable; O ...
WHile yet it was the Empire of the Night, And Stars still check'r'd Darkness with their Light, From Temples round ...
Thy face is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry, I shall not find Thee quick and kind, ...
We were all one heart and one race When the Abbey trumpets blew. For a moment's breathing-space We had forgotten ...
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
Lord, how I am all ague, when I seek What I have treasur'd in my memory! Since, if my soul ...
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This ...
Is this a life, to break thy sleep, To rise as soon as day doth peep? To tire thy patient ...
Till I shall come again, let this suffice, I send my salt, my sacrifice To thee, thy lady, younglings, and ...
Not for my body the stuff of earth, my clay your law, your decrees, your precepts speaking to me The ...
Each of us a vessel God's love to reveal filled with his grace, his blessing pouring out his love each ...
Unburdened by the minutiae the constraints of the decrees getting at the commandments how we are to live Love for ...
The righteous, the leaders elders of the people doing evil in the eyes of God failing to keep the covenants ...
The commands of God the law, the decrees rules for the people how to live in community Violating the rules ...
The leader, the prophet telling their story as if to their elders remembering a shared memory telling their story in ...
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns: Now Love prevails, and now Ambition gains Reason's lost Throne, and sov'reign Rule ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
In robes of Tyrian blue the King was drest, A jewelled collar shone upon his breast, A giant ruby glittered ...
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis for object strange and high: It was begotten by Despair ...
Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
That Providence which had so long the care Of Cromwell's head, and numbred ev'ry hair, Now in its self (the ...
Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking Weight does raise; So Man, declining ...
A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector That Providence which had so long the care ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
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