Our Lady Peace (Mark van Doren Poem)
How far is it to peace, the piper sighed, The solitary, sweating as he paused. Asphalt the noon; the ravens, ...
How far is it to peace, the piper sighed, The solitary, sweating as he paused. Asphalt the noon; the ravens, ...
'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son- Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Dim, as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wand'ring travellers, Is reason to the soul; and ...
For every hour that thou wilt spare me now I will allow, Usurious God of Love, twenty to thee, When ...
Where Thou art -- that -- is Home -- Cashmere -- or Calvary -- the same -- Degree -- or ...
Title divine -- is mine! The Wife -- without the Sign! Acute Degree -- conferred on me -- Empress of ...
Through the strait pass of suffering -- The Martyrs -- even -- trod. Their feet -- upon Temptations -- Their ...
The Murmur of a Bee A Witchcraft -- yieldeth me -- If any ask me why -- 'Twere easier to ...
The Moon is distant from the Sea -- And yet, with Amber Hands -- She leads Him -- docile as ...
The face I carry with me -- last -- When I go out of Time -- To take my Rank ...
Lest this be Heaven indeed An Obstacle is given That always gauges a Degree Between Ourself and Heaven. (Emily Dickinson)
I should have been too glad, I see -- Too lifted -- for the scant degree Of Life's penurious Round ...
Doubt Me! My Dim Companion! Why, God, would be content With but a fraction of the Life -- Poured thee, ...
Conjecturing a Climate Of unsuspended Suns -- Adds poignancy to Winter -- The Shivering Fancy turns To a fictitious Country ...
Again -- his voice is at the door -- I feel the old Degree -- I hear him ask the ...
Garland for Queens, may be -- Laurels -- for rare degree Of soul or sword. Ah -- but remembering me ...
We talked as Girls do -- Fond, and late -- We speculated fair, on every subject, but the Grave -- ...
What Soft -- Cherubic Creatures -- These Gentlewomen are -- One would as soon assault a Plush -- Or violate ...
Sleep is supposed to be By souls of sanity The shutting of the eye. Sleep is the station grand Down ...
I am having a haircut today, it is not a complex event requiring excellent foresight, careful planning or indecent logistical ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
THE PROLOGUE. THE Cook of London, while the Reeve thus spake, For joy he laugh'd and clapp'd him on the ...
The double 12 sorwe of Troilus to tellen, That was the king Priamus sone of Troye, In lovinge, how his ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
Though friendships differ endless in degree , The sorts , methinks, may be reduced to three. Ac quaintance many, and ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
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