The Supreme Test (Edwin John Pratt Poems)
Now it was clear to every ShadeThat some great wonder was before them,As Tom upon the palisadeEmptied, as fast as ...
Now it was clear to every ShadeThat some great wonder was before them,As Tom upon the palisadeEmptied, as fast as ...
Now God alone that made all things, Heaven and earth and all that's in, The ships ...
I love this byre. Shadows are kindly here.The light is flecked with travelling stars of dust,So quiet it seems after ...
What is the lure of the South Seas' songThat sings in the hearts of men so long?What are its languorous, ...
As I was a-walking down Paradise Street,A bonny young maiden I chanced for to meet;She gave me good-morning all as ...
Ovarus mine, Plant thou the vineWithin this kindly soil of Tibur; Nor temporal woes, Nor spiritual, knowsThe ...
A devil serves our mastersAnd warps to their desireThe flexing of our sinews,Our hearts' corroding fire;Old as the mists of ...
Through the starry hollowOf the summer nightI would follow, followHesperus the bright,To seek beyond the western waveHis garden of delight.Hesperus ...
You did not know, — how could you, dear, —How much you stood for? Life in youRetained its touch of ...
About the Emperor's thumb revolving,Mouthed by Manchu's enamelled dragon;Upon the damasked barge, dissolvingWithin the deep Egyptian flagon;Downcast before the swine ...
Boy, I detest the Persian pomp; I hate those linden-bark devices;And as for roses, holy Moses! They can't be got ...
There once was a man whom the gods didn't love, And a disagreeable man was he. He loathed his neighbours, ...
THERE stands on yonder high mountain A castle built of yore, Where once lurked horse and horseman In rear of ...
St George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon He drank a pint of English ale Out ...
Under the table, no. That last was stunning, that flagon had breasts. Some men grow down cursed. Why drink so, ...
THERE are some powerful odours that can pass Out of the stoppard flagon; even glass To them is porous. Oft ...
I. Of the million or two, more or less, I rule and possess, One man, for some cause undefined, Was ...
SHORTLY AFTER THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING IN EUROPE. Let us begin and carry up this corpse, Singing together. Leave we ...
The time has come for us to become madmen in your chain, to burst our bonds and become estranged from ...
There is never a wind to sing o'er the sea On its dimpled bosom that holdeth in fee Wealth of ...
Lo, find we here when the ripe day is o'er A kingdom of enchantment by the shore! Behold the sky ...
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