Troy Town (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
HEAVENBORN Helen, Sparta's queen,(O Troy Town!)Had two breasts of heavenly sheen,The sun and moon of the heart's desire:All Love's lordship ...
HEAVENBORN Helen, Sparta's queen,(O Troy Town!)Had two breasts of heavenly sheen,The sun and moon of the heart's desire:All Love's lordship ...
In answer to those who have said that English Poetsgive no personal love to their country.ENGLAND, my country, austere in ...
Before my window, in days of winter hoarHuddled a mournful wood:Smooth pillars of beech, domed chestnut, sycamore,In stony sleep they ...
Sweet village! where my early days were pass'd,Though parted long, we meet, we meet at last!Like friends, imbrown'd by many ...
Now every Child that dwells on earth, Stand up, stand up and sing!The passing night has given birth Unto ...
Now every Child that dwells on earth,Stand up, stand up and sing:The passing night has given birthUnto the Children's King.Sing ...
STILL earth turns and pulses stir, And each day hath its deed; But if I be dead to her, What ...
Soothsay. Behold, with rod twy-serpented,Hermes the prophet, twining in one powerThe woman with the man. Upon his headThe cloudy cap, ...
When the summer fields are mown, When the birds are fledged and flown, And the dry leaves strew the path; ...
At her Junior High School graduation, she sings alone in front of the lot of us-- her voice soprano, surprising, ...
This valley wood is pledged To the set shape of things, And reasonably hedged: Here are no harpies fledged, No ...
I am like, They tell me, my dear father. Broader brows Howbeit, upon a slenderer undergrowth Of delicate ...
Lucilla, wedded to Lucretius, found Her master cold; for when the morning flush Of passion and the first embrace had ...
'There sinks the nebulous star we call the Sun, If that hypothesis of theirs be sound' Said Ida; 'let us ...
A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal Even while we hailed as fresh ...
I Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star Take heart in heaven from eastward, while the west, Fulfilled of watery ...
CHORUS If with voice of words or prayers thy sons may reach thee, We thy latter sons, the men thine ...
Maiden most beautiful, mother most bountiful, lady of lands, Queen and republican, crowned of the centuries whose years are thy ...
For oh, when the war will be over We'll go and we'll look for our dead; We'll go when the ...
(To Robert Graves) I Here I'm sitting in the gloom Of my quiet attic room. France goes rolling all around, ...
When in from Delos came the gold That held the dream of Pericles, When first Athenian ears were told The ...
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