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 ...
Just at the self-same beat of Time's wide wingsHyperion slid into the rustled air,And Saturn gain'd with Thea that sad ...
This terror, then, this darkness of the mind,Not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light,Nor glittering arrows of morning can ...
'Twas Athens first, the glorious in name,That whilom gave to hapless sons of menThe sheaves of harvest, and re-ordered life,And ...
With reverent eyes and bowed, uncovered head, A son of sorrow kneels by fanes you knew;But cannot say the words that ...
I fell asleep upon a summer's dayAs on a shady woodland bank I lay,And as I slept there came to ...
Muse, sing the deeds of golden Aphrodite,Who wakens with her smile the lulled delightOf sweet desire, taming the eternal kingsOf ...
NEVER nobler was the Senate,Never grander the debate:Rome's old gods are on their trialBy the judges of the state!Torn by ...
A million feet above the ground (For so it seemed in winding round), A million, and two more, The latter stiff and sore, While ...
Godlike beneath his grave divinities,The last of all their worshippers, he stood.The shadows of a vanished multitudeEnwound him, and their ...
One comes to love the little saints,As years go by.One learns to love the little saints."O hear me sigh,St. Anthony,Find ...
I.If thou hadst been a sculptor, what a raceOf forms divine had thenceforth filled the land!Methinks I see thee, glorious ...
_Izcatqui yn cuicatl chicuexiuhtica meuaya iniquac atamalqualoya._ 1. Xochitl noyollo cuepontimania ye tlacoyoalle, oaya, oouayaye. 2. Yecoc ye tonan, yecoc ...
Mourn, Mourn, ye Muses, all your loss deplore, The Young, the Noble Strephon is no more. Yes, yes, he fled ...
The goblet is sparkling with purpled-tinged wine, Bright glistens the eye of each guest,When into the hall comes the Minstrel ...
_Ayopechtli icuic._ 1. Cane cana ichan, ayopechcatl cozcapantica mixiuhtoc. 2. Cane cana ichan ayopechcatl cozcapantica mixiuhtoc, cane ichanchacayoticaya. 3. Xiualmeuayauia, ...
Duchess: Who am I?Bosola: Thou art a box of worm-seed, at best but asalvatory of green mummy.The stage is about ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
(To Marcel Schwob in friendship and in admiration) In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy ...
The goblet is sparkling with purpled-tinged wine, Bright glistens the eye of each guest, When into the hall comes the ...
YES, friend, I own these tales of Arabia Smile not, as smiled their flawless originals, Age-old but yet untamed, for ...
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