Thoughts: Mahomed Akram (Laurence Hope Poems)
If some day this body of mine were burned(It found no favour alas! with you)And the ashes scattered abroad, unurned,Would ...
If some day this body of mine were burned(It found no favour alas! with you)And the ashes scattered abroad, unurned,Would ...
The sun is low, The waters flow, My boat is dancing to and fro. The eve is still, Yet from the hill The killdeer echoes ...
How grandly solemn is this arch of night, How wonderfully beautiful and vast,Crowded with worlds enswathed in living light, Coeval with th' ...
AROUND us unaware the solemn nightHad hung its shadowy mantle, while we soughtTo find each other by the roads of ...
INot yet had History's Aetna smoked the skies,And low the Gallic Giantess lay enchained,While overhead in ordered set and riseHer ...
The shades of night were brooding O'er the sea, the earth, the sky;The passing winds were wailing In a low, ...
At the coming up of Phoebus the all-luminous charioteer,Double-visaged stand the mountains in imperial multitudes,And with shadows dappled men sing ...
Then trim the lights, my strange, strange child,And let the fagots glow;For more of these mysterious thingsI fear, yet long, ...
'Twas in the sultry summer-time, as war's red records show, When patriot armies rose to meet a fratricidal foe;When from ...
Darkness sat brooding o'er the infant world, That in chaotic gloom and silence lay, Till from the throne of Light ...
ALAS! for that voice which the envoy of Heaven, In accents celestial, pour'd sweet on the ear,That when the ...
As when the sun in darkness sets, And night falls on the earth,Along the azure fields above The stars of ...
Seeking for happiness we must go slowly;The road leads not down avenues of haste;But often gently winds through by ways ...
BEHIND the orient darkness of thine eyes, The eyes of God interrogate my soul With whelming love. The ...
See those resplendent creatures, as they glide O'er scarlet carpet, between footmen tall, From sumptuous carriage to effulgent hall— A ...
Oh life is wonderful,' she said,'And all my world is bright;Can Paradise show fairer skies,Or more effulgent light?'(Speak lower, lower, ...
UPON a poet's page I wrote Of old two letters of her name; Part seemed she of the effulgent thought ...
To cultivate in ev'ry noble mind Habitual grace, and sentiments refin'd, Thus while you strive to mend the human heart, ...
There is no transcience of twilight in The beauty of your soft dusk-dimpled face, No flicker of a slender flame ...
I know a village in a far-off land Where from a sunny, mountain-girdled plain With tinted walls a space on ...
She is effulgent in the dark halls of town. She is listening but they are hearing. Her skin is blistering ...
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