The Ghost (Henry Lawson Poem)
Down the street as I was drifting with the city's human tide, Came a ghost, and for a moment walked ...
Down the street as I was drifting with the city's human tide, Came a ghost, and for a moment walked ...
After the first astounding rush, after the weeks at the lake, the crystal, the clouds, the water lapping the rocks, ...
(Maidens' song from St. Winefred's Well) THE LEADEN ECHO How to kéep-is there ány any, is there none such, nowhere ...
I I saw a dead man's finer part Shining within each faithful heart Of those bereft. Then said I: "This ...
Do I see a contest yonder? See I miracles or pastimes? Beauteous urchins, five in number, 'Gainst five sisters fair ...
THESE are the most singular of all the Poems of Goethe, and to many will appear so wild and fantastic, ...
In spite of all the learn'd have said; I still my old opinion keep, The posture, that we give the ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
You'll know Her -- by Her Foot -- The smallest Gamboge Hand With Fingers -- where the Toes should be ...
We thirst at first -- 'tis Nature's Act -- And later -- when we die -- A little Water supplicate ...
We see -- Comparatively -- The Thing so towering high We could not grasp its segment Unaided -- Yesterday -- ...
There is a Shame of Nobleness -- Confronting Sudden Pelf -- A finer Shame of Ecstasy -- Convicted of Itself ...
The Skies can't keep their secret! They tell it to the Hills -- The Hills just tell the Orchards -- ...
Summer has two Beginnings -- Beginning once in June -- Beginning in October Affectingly again -- Without, perhaps, the Riot ...
Shall I take thee, the Poet said To the propounded word? Be stationed with the Candidates Till I have finer ...
More Life -- went out -- when He went Than Ordinary Breath -- Lit with a finer Phosphor -- Requiring ...
I watched the Moon around the House Until upon a Pane -- She stopped -- a Traveller's privilege -- for ...
Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat? Then crouch within the door -- Red -- is the Fire's ...
As the Starved Maelstrom laps the Navies As the Vulture teased Forces the Broods in lonely Valleys As the Tiger ...
I would not paint -- a picture -- I'd rather be the One Its bright impossibility To dwell -- delicious ...
A fuzzy fellow, without feet, Yet doth exceeding run! Of velvet, is his Countenance, And his Complexion, dun! Sometime, he ...
I do not love thee for that fair Rich fan of thy most curious hair; Though the wires thereof be ...
Beneath the blaze of a tropical sun the mountain peaks are the Thrones of Frost, through the absence of objects ...
The way the dog trots out the front door every morning without a hat or an umbrella, without any money ...
I've come to give you fruit from out my orchard, Of wide report. I have trees there that bear me ...
"As certain also of your own poets have said"-- (Acts 17.28) Cleon the poet (from the sprinkled isles, Lily on ...
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
BEHOLD, my love, how green the groves, The primrose banks how fair; The balmy gales awake the flowers, And wave ...
We sighing said, "Our Pan is dead; His pipe hangs mute beside the river Around it wistful sunbeams quiver, But ...
SENSIBILITY, how charming, Dearest Nancy, thou canst tell; But distress, with horrors arming, Thou alas! hast known too well! Fairest ...
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