The Mortal Lease (Edith Wharton Poems)
IBecause the currents of our love are pouredThrough the slow welter of the primal floodFrom some blind source of monster-haunted ...
IBecause the currents of our love are pouredThrough the slow welter of the primal floodFrom some blind source of monster-haunted ...
To the Almighty on his radiant Throne, Let endless Hallelujas rise! Praise Him, ye wondrous Heights to us unknown, ...
HAIL! sable queen of soft repose,Who bid'st the weary eyelids close,To Sleep's profoundest sway resign'd;Or, still more pleasing to the ...
A man of sorrows and with grief acquainted, He bowed His beauteous head to the rude hands ...
A sadder word I never uttered yet-- No, not in chambers when the light was low, And the pale mourners ...
Mistress, behold, in this true-speaking glassThy beauty's graces, of all women rarest,Where thou mayst find how largely they surpassAnd stain ...
Darling, to say I love thee, is to say What I have often said, with careless arm Round Chloe's waist, ...
That which her slender waist confin'd, Shall now my joyful temples bind; No monarch but would give his ...
I shall go back again to the bleak shoreAnd build a little shanty on the sandIn such a way that ...
From the heavenly, clear, invisible, homeOur voices come:No joy can resemble the joy which reignsIn our seraph veins.Lov'd ones, lov'd ...
412I read my sentence-steadily-Reviewed it with my eyes,To see that I made no mistakeIn its extremest clause-The Date, and manner, ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
To the Almighty on his radiant Throne, Let endless Hallelujas rise! Praise Him, ye wondrous Heights to us unknown, Praise ...
I read my sentence -- steadily -- Reviewed it with my eyes, To see that I made no mistake In ...
No, though our all be spent-- Heart's extremest love, Spirit's whole intent, All that nerve can feel, All that brain ...
Is this the land our fathers loved, The freedom which they toiled to win? Is this the soil whereon they ...
When Yankies, skill'd in martial rule, First put the British troops to school; Instructed them in warlike trade, And new ...
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
(Time Night. Scene the woods.) Where shall I turn me? whither shall I bend My weary way? thus worn with ...
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...
Oh, ponder, friend, the porcupine; Refresh your recollection, And sit a moment, to define His means of self-protection. How truly ...
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