Orchestral Score (Jan Struther Poems)
IF only one could read the score of a situation:Take in with the heart the inevitabilitiesWhich the mind's eye foresees-Its ...
IF only one could read the score of a situation:Take in with the heart the inevitabilitiesWhich the mind's eye foresees-Its ...
A Microcosm In Terza RimaI.Quiet I lay at last, and knew no moreWhether I breathed or not, so worn I ...
IThe sister Hours in circles linked,Daughters of men, of men the mates,Are gone on flow with the day that winked,With ...
BOOK IV.So did that youth choose Duty before Love:And so determination drove awayThe doubts that held him with ungainly checkWavering—for ...
Swept from his fleet upon that fatal night When great Poseidon's sudden-veering wrath Scattered the happy homeward-floating Greeks Like foam-flakes ...
Far in the east the rain-clouds sweep and harry, Down the long haggard hills, formless and low,Far in the west ...
I AM a weakling. God, who made The still, strong man, made also me. The God who ...
Gyved and chained in his father's home, He toiled 'neath a conqueror's rule;Bowed to the earth in the land of ...
Whene'er I read some savage tale Of punishment devisedBy tyrants in an olden day, When serfs were victimised,I reverently tell ...
THE wraiths of murdered hopes and loves Come whispering at the door, Come creeping through the weeping mist That drapes ...
I. LET no man charge thee, woman if thou art, And therefore pitiful, to veil thine eyes From any naked ...
Lay him down where the fern is thick and fair.Fain was he for life, here lies he low:With the blood ...
"II'll call thy frown a headsman, passing grim, Walking before some wretch foredoomed to death, Who counts the pantings of ...
LIIIn truth, Love, but a single hope remains-- The hope to win thee at the bitter end Of many trials. ...
I trust my love for thee may expiate The many passions I have felt or feigned For the deluded idols ...
O moth, that yearns for me,The whole world pities thee,Foredoomed on heedless wing,By mad fire-worshipping.But sadder is my fate,Who, when ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
This is the hardest part: When I came back to life I was a good family dog and not too ...
This is the hardest part: When I came back to life I was a good family dog and not too ...
He gives me such a bold and curious look, That young American across the way, As if he'd like to ...
O Pride of the days in prime of the months Now trebled in great renown, When before the ark of ...
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