The Encounter (Helen Gray Cone Poems)
There's a wood-way winding high,Roofed far up with light-green flicker,Save one midmost star of sky.Underfoot 'tis all pale brownWith the ...
There's a wood-way winding high,Roofed far up with light-green flicker,Save one midmost star of sky.Underfoot 'tis all pale brownWith the ...
Shake, shake the earth with giant tread, Thou red-maned Titian bold;For every step a man lies dead, A cottage hearth is cold.Take ...
SWEET bud of promise, fresh and fair,Just moving in the morning air,The morn of life but just begun,The sands of ...
Lo, in the sanctuaried East,Day, a dedicated priestIn all his robes pontifical exprest,Lifteth slowly, lifteth sweetly,From out its Orient tabernacle ...
He was tall and tough and stringy, with the shoulders of an axeman,Broad and loose, with greenhide muscles, and a ...
A PERILOUS path, it proved, he trodwho heinously hid, that hall within,wealth under wall! Its watcher had killedone of a ...
BEOWULF spake, bairn of Ecgtheow: —"Have mind, thou honored offspring of Healfdenegold-friend of men, now I go on this quest,sovran ...
THERE was hurry and hest in Heorot nowfor hands to bedeck it, and dense was the throngof men and women ...
Young Jenny, she walked ower t' ribbed sea-sand, (T' lairocks sing sae sweetly, O!)Wheer she met a fisher-lad, net ...
I'll sing to you a fine new song, made by my blessed mate,Of a fine Australian squatter who had a ...
The robing is done, The bells have begun.And the bride is as bright is as a rising sun. And her ...
FORMAL, quaint, precise, and trim, You begin your steps demurely -- There's a spirit almost prim In the feet that ...
Dry thine eyes, Doll! the stars above us shine;God of His goodness made them mine and thine;His silver have we ...
Friend of my earliest years and childish days, My joys, my sorrows, thou with me hast shared,Companion dear, and we ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
THE SIMPLE Bard, rough at the rustic plough, Learning his tuneful trade from ev'ry bough; The chanting linnet, or the ...
Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Court'sied when you have, and kiss'd,-- The wild waves whist-- Foot ...
COME unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Court'sied when you have, and kiss'd,-- The wild waves whist,-- Foot ...
War shook the land where Levi dwelt, And fired the dismal wrath he felt, That such a doom was ever ...
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
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