The Old Garden (George MacDonald Poems)
I.I stood in an ancient gardenWith high red walls around;Over them grey and green lichensIn shadowy arabesque wound.The topmost climbing ...
I.I stood in an ancient gardenWith high red walls around;Over them grey and green lichensIn shadowy arabesque wound.The topmost climbing ...
Red is the color of blood, and I will seek it: I have sought it in the grass. It is ...
YE sons of men! with reverence bowBefore th' Almighty's throne!With adoration's hallow'd glow;His ceaseless goodness own:Obedient to his dread controul,Famine, ...
THE steadfast coursing of the stars, The waves that ripple to the shore, The vigorous trees which year by year ...
UPON the storm-swept beach brown broken weedsLay scattered far abroad, and as he sawThe wild, disordered strand, "Behold the law,"He ...
Imagination plays me most intolerable tricks.To enumerate them all would be unbearably prolix.Just a trifle bids them gather and a ...
Gushan Temple is to the north, Jiating pavilion west,The water's surface now is calm, the bottom of the clouds low.In ...
The little boy pressed his face against the window-pane and looked out at the bright sunshiny morning. The cobble-stones of ...
From the Spanish of Pedro Calderon de la Barca A dream it was in which I found myself. And you ...
a novel by Richard Brautigan THE COVER FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA The cover for Trout Fishing in America is ...
Come touch me baby in his waking dream disordered Henry murmured. I'll read you Hegel and that will hurt your ...
It was Karl Shapiro who wrote in his 'Defence of Ignorance' how many poets Go mad or seem to be ...
Because there was no other place to flee to, I came back to the scene of the disordered senses, came ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
At last we parley: we so strangely dumb In such a close communion! It befell About the sounding of the ...
At last we parley: we so strangely dumb In such a close communion! It befell About the sounding of the ...
'Twas in the year of 1854, and on the 5th November, Which Britain will no doubt long remember, When the ...
'Twas at the disastrous battle of Maiwand, in Afghanistan, Where the Berkshires were massacred to the last man; On the ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
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