Festus – XXXI (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Earth regained,And lone sea--shore where the great waves come inFrothed like a horse put to his heart--burst speed,Sobbing up--hill, note ...
Earth regained,And lone sea--shore where the great waves come inFrothed like a horse put to his heart--burst speed,Sobbing up--hill, note ...
'Thus do the generations of the earth Go to the grave and issue from the womb, Surviving still the imperishable change That renovates ...
Avarice.See Miser. Money.Hence almost ev'ry Crime, nor do we find,That any Passion of the human Mind,So oft has plung'd the ...
In the deep darkness underneath the groundThat never has been reached by mortal sight,There silent currents of black water glideIn ...
In the deep darkness underneath the groundThat never has been reached by mortal sight,There silent currents of black water glideIn ...
The day is done;—the night comes calmly forth,Bringing sweet rest upon the wings of even:The golden wain rolls round the ...
O that word REGRET!There have been nights and morns when we have sighed,“Let us alone, Regret! We are contentTo throw thee ...
It is a sweet tradition, with a soulOf tenderest pathos! Hearken, love!—for allThe sacred undercurrents of the heartThrill to its ...
It almost now seems all in vainFor to expect high price for grain,Wheat is grown on Egyptian soilOn the banks ...
THEY rise to mastery of wind and snow;They go like soldiers grimly into strifeTo colonize the plain. They plough and ...
Too wearily had we and songBeen left to look and left to long,Yea, song and we to long and look,Since ...
WHAT lapse or accident of timeCan dull that soul's sonorous chimeWhich owns the priceless heritage -Youth's summer warmth in wintry ...
Maecenas, I propose to fly To realms beyond these human portals;No common things shall be my wings, But such as ...
Come, thou queen of every creature, Nature calls thee to her arms ; Love sits gay on every feature, Teeming ...
In that timeWhen civilization struck with insultsWhen holy water struck domesticated browsThe vultures built in the shadow of their clawsThe ...
An Epithaliamium So Man, grown vigorous now, Holds himself ripe to breed, Daily devises how To ejaculate his seed And ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
Too wearily had we and song Been left to look and left to long, Yea, song and we to long ...
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