Opium (Madison Julius Cawein Poems)
_On reading De Quincey's "Confessions of an Opium Eater."_ I seemed to stand before a temple walled From shadows and night's unrealities; Filled ...
_On reading De Quincey's "Confessions of an Opium Eater."_ I seemed to stand before a temple walled From shadows and night's unrealities; Filled ...
HOLD it up sternly! See this it sends back! (Who is it? Is it you?)Outside fair costume--within ashes and filth,No ...
There is the screever. Since a north wind blowingHas left the kerbstone dry to suit his chalks,He's chosen a pitch ...
Out of the Eater, meat:Thou dost the streams devour.Out of the strong, the sweet;The brine begets the shower.'Tis thus, O ...
The Inammoration.ARGUMENT. O, DEUS, aut nullo caleat mihi Pectus ab Igne! Aut solo caleat Pectus ab Igne Tui! Languet ut ...
LOUHI STEALS SUN, MOON, AND FIRE.Wainamoinen, ancient minstrel,Touched again his magic harp-strings,Sang in miracles of concord,Filled the north with joy ...
Lo, in the sanctuaried East,Day, a dedicated priestIn all his robes pontifical exprest,Lifteth slowly, lifteth sweetly,From out its Orient tabernacle ...
Harun Omar and Master Hafiz keep your dead beautiful ladies. Mine is a little lovelier than any of your ladies ...
He had a genius, some old chap:Found a way of boilingSoup with never a pill or slopWhile the kitchen's rolling.First, ...
Now, Plugger Palook was a man in a thousand -- (Said Horace the Howler) not one of yer fools.But his ...
I fought I was hep to the whole string o' fairiesNot one o' the bunch could put me to the ...
IDragon-fly lightingOn the temple-bell,Whose soul do you hearOn the Day of the Dead?The soul of my lover?Ah me, the plightingBetween ...
The Bible tells the story of Samson,A very strong man.As he went down to TimnahHe was attacked by a fierce ...
To be put on the train and kissed and given my ticket, Then the station slid backward, the shops and ...
Cherries of the night are riper Than the cherries pluckt at noon Gather to your fairy piper When he pipes ...
Though loth to grieve The evil time's sole patriot, I cannot leave My buried thought For the priest's cant, Or ...
HOLD it up sternly! See this it sends back! (Who is it? Is it you?) Outside fair costume-within ashes and ...
I I AM the undertow Washing tides of power Battering the pillars Under your things of high law. II I ...
"A genuine anteater," The pet man told me dad. Turned out, it was an aunt eater, And now my uncle's ...
Another armored animal--scale lapping scale with spruce-cone regularity until they form the uninterrupted central tail-row! This near artichoke with head ...
A curse upon each king who leads his state, No matter what his plea, to this foul game, And may ...
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