The Sea Witch (Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall Poems)
ENDLESSLY fell her chestnut flowers,Faint snow throughout the honeyed dark;The myrtle spread his boughs to drinkDeep draughts of salt from ...
ENDLESSLY fell her chestnut flowers,Faint snow throughout the honeyed dark;The myrtle spread his boughs to drinkDeep draughts of salt from ...
In the blue heaven the clouds will come and go,Scudding before the gale, or drifting slowAs galleons becalmed in Sundown ...
A quick perceptiveness, a woman's charm,a windless city white with falling snow,the gallant courtesy of men-at-arms,the blue of lazuli, the ...
Is it a shroud or bridal veilThat hides it from our sight,The lonely sepulchre of Day,Or banquet-hall of Night?Are those ...
At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away:'Spanish ...
COME forth! the world's aflame with flags and flowers, The shout of bells fills full the shattered air, ...
Perched on a dead volcanic pile,Now charted as a submerged peak,Near to a moon-washed coral isle,A hundred leagues from Mozambique,Three ...
Eighty men of Devon stood out to sweep the sea, To plough the Spanish Main, my boys, to plough ...
September: 1588 Let them come, come never so proudly, O'er the green waves as giants ride; Silver clarions ...
"HELEN'S lips are drifting dust; Ilion is consumed with rust; All the galleons of Greece Drink the ocean's dreamless peace; ...
When Shakespeare came to London He met no shouting throngs; He carried in his knapsack A scroll of quiet songs. ...
MY soul is a submarine. My aspirations are torpedoes. I will hide unseen Beneath the surface of life Watching for ...
"And there was no more sea." Thus said The Lord in the Vault above the Cherubim Calling to the Angels ...
Above the portico a flag-staff, bearing the Union Jack, remained fluttering in the flames for some time, but ultimately when ...
When a man starts out with nothing, When a man starts out with his hands Empty, but clean, When a ...
--And yet this great wink of eternity, Of rimless floods, unfettered leewardings, Samite sheeted and processioned where Her undinal vast ...
A woman who writes feels too much, those trances and portents! As if cycles and children and islands weren't enough; ...
Unlovely city, to which few tourists come With squinting cameras and alien hats; Left under a cloud by those who ...
IT'S forth across the roaring foam, and on towards the west, It's many a lonely league from home, o'er many ...
WHAT domination of what darkness dies this hour, And through what new, rejoicing, winged, ethereal power O'erthrown, the cells opened, ...
When in from Delos came the gold That held the dream of Pericles, When first Athenian ears were told The ...
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