Beechwood (John Freeman Poems)
Hear me, O beeches! YouThat have with ageless anguish slowly risenFrom earth's still secret prisonInto the ampler prison of aery ...
Hear me, O beeches! YouThat have with ageless anguish slowly risenFrom earth's still secret prisonInto the ampler prison of aery ...
NOW had the season returned, when the nights grow colder and longer,And the retreating sun the sign of the Scorpion ...
Never was there lovelier townThan our Falmouth by the sea.Tender curves of sky look downOn her grace of knoll and ...
At nothing, Harmsworth? Nothing?Once againOne wants to plead, though one must plead in vain,That you would condescend to clearer terms."Nothing" ...
'Tis said but a name is friendship,Soulless, and shallow, and vain;That the human heart ne'er beats in response,Or echoes sweet ...
As the insect from the rock Takes the color of its wing;As the boulder from the shock Of the ocean's rhythmic swingMakes ...
Gazing upon the toiling seas,In gloomy rows the silent captives sate;And as the ship rode off before the breeze,They murmured ...
I.IN the beautiful Castleton Island a mansion of lordly style,Embowered in gardens and lawns, looks over the glimmering bay.In the ...
IThe Tyrant passed, and friendlier was his eyeOn the great man of Athens, whom for foeHe knew, than on the ...
A small sagacious friend of life'sWho never liked to stirBeyond her darling garden path,Til death seemed friendlier.Before she swung her ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
Westward, hit a low note, for a roarer lost across the Sound but north from Bremerton, hit a way down ...
While I, that reed-throated whisperer Who comes at need, although not now as once A clear articulation in the air, ...
I never did fit in - at six or sixty one - I stand out in a crowd, too young ...
STATELY, kindly, lordly friend, Condescend Here to sit by me, and turn Glorious eyes that smile and burn, Golden eyes, ...
1 Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair, And the green freedom of a ...
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