Festus – II (Philip James Bailey Poems)
From heaven, soul--like, to earth. It is sundown. MarkThe heart's state, empty and collapsed, the world'sVain pleasures leave us in, ...
From heaven, soul--like, to earth. It is sundown. MarkThe heart's state, empty and collapsed, the world'sVain pleasures leave us in, ...
As swift the horseman o'er Lake Constance flewHis steed, snow- scattering. The twilight came.His shadow, dark- blue giant, slowly greyed,E'en ...
LIFE seems belittled when a great man dies;The age ...
For so long and so long had I forgot, Serenely busiedWith thousand things; at whiles desire grew hot And my soul dizziedWith ...
I stood at sunrise, on the topmost partOf lofty mountain, massively sublime;A pinnacle of trachyte, seamed and scarredBy countless generations' ...
I crossed the gangway in the winter's raining,Late in the night, when it was dreary dark;The only sounds the rain's ...
Stars in the heavens turn, I worship like a star, And in its footsteps learn Where peace and wisdom are. ...
Thine emulous fond flowers are dead, too, And the daft sun-assaulter, he That frightened thee so oft, is fled or ...
So like a flower and a current of air the flow of water fleeting shadows the smile glimpsed at midnight ...
So Eden was deserted, and at eve Into the quiet place God came to grieve. His face was sad, His ...
But, learning now that they would have her speak, She threw her wet hair backward from her brow, Her hand ...
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