The Quest (Denise Levertov Poem)
High, hollowed in green above the rocks of reason lies the crater lake whose ice the dreamer breaks to find ...
High, hollowed in green above the rocks of reason lies the crater lake whose ice the dreamer breaks to find ...
'Twixt the coastline and the border lay the town of Grog-an'-Grumble In the days before the bushman was a dull ...
I touch you in the night, whose gift was you, My careless sprawler, And I touch you cold, unstirring, star-bemused, ...
Oh ye who hold the written clue To all save all unwritten things, And, half a league behind, pursue The ...
I have been given my charge to keep-- Well have I kept the same! Playing with strife for the most ...
1904(C. F. Rhodes, buried in the Matoppos, April 10, 1902) When that great Kings return to clay, Or Emperors in ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
St. Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through ...
WHEN in the dance of the Nymphs, in the moonlight so holy assembled, Mingle the Graces, down from Olympus in ...
Two dreams came down to earth one night From the realm of mist and dew; One was a dream of ...
From the Spanish of Pedro Calderon de la Barca A dream it was in which I found myself. And you ...
Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now ? Since passion may not fire thee Shall nature cease ...
Sir, since the last Elizabethan died, Or, rather, that more Paradisal muse, Blind with much light, passed to the light ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light. The trees grow dark: the shadows lean to the ...
The round red sun heaves darkly out of the sea. The walls and towers are warmed and gleam. Sounds go ...
One, from his high bright window in a tower, Leans out, as evening falls, And sees the advancing curtain of ...
The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light. The trees grow dark: the shadows lean to the ...
How he sleepeth! having drunken Weary childhood's mandragore, From his pretty eyes have sunken Pleasures, to make room for more--- ...
PART I O! nothing earthly save the ray (Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty's eye, As in those gardens where ...
I Where the wings of a sunny Dome expand I saw a Banner in gladsome air- Starry, like Berenice's Hair- ...
My Claudia, it is long since we have met, So kissed, so held each other heart to heart! I thought ...
Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing, I cannot ease the burden of your fears, Or make ...
A Streaming Golden Light Enters In and Under the Windowsill A Restless Sleeper Is Awakened to New Beginnings To Catch ...
To-day the woods are trembling through and through With shimmering forms, that flash before my view, Then melt in green ...
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