The Search-Light, Kimberley, 1899-1900 (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Dark night upon the leaguered town, And on the hidden foe;Anxious the distant nation waits For news of ...
Dark night upon the leaguered town, And on the hidden foe;Anxious the distant nation waits For news of ...
THE hop-shop is shut up: the night doth wear. Here, early, Collinson this evening fell "Into the gulfs of sleep"; ...
A star frightens the steeple crossa horse gasps smokeiron clanks drowsilymists spreadfearsstaring shiveringshivering cajolingwhisperingYou!(August Stramm)
About suffering, about adoration, the old masters Disagree. When someone suffers, no one else eats Or walks or opens the ...
Foundered March 24. 1878 1 The Eurydice-it concerned thee, O Lord: Three hundred souls, O alas! on board, Some asleep ...
So mindful present in my thoughts this morning that transfixing moment the towers falling our gasps, holding our breath not ...
The words of Your prayer sung, as if in gasps, trembling urgent words raised for the congregation words of Christ, ...
As I woke this morning, I remembered I remembered that day, the exact moment when I saw the towers, innocence ...
At your right, I sat with you, near you feeling your presence, your pain Labored breath fell to Slow, uneven ...
As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth ...
Night's grating of steel on stone and splash of water crashing from the buckets brings back that moment in a ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
There were strange gatherings. A vote would come that would be no vote. There would come a rope. Yes. There ...
Midnight; bells toll, and along the cloud-high towers The golden lights go out . . . The yellow windows darken, ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
1 EARTH, round, rolling, compact-suns, moons, animals-all these are words to be said; Watery, vegetable, sauroid advances-beings, premonitions, lispings of ...
Pellam the King, who held and lost with Lot In that first war, and had his realm restored But rendered ...
We have all of us read how the Israelites fled From Egypt with Pharaoh in eager pursuit of 'em, And ...
That Providence which had so long the care Of Cromwell's head, and numbred ev'ry hair, Now in its self (the ...
". . . defeated, with great loss." Not we the conquered! Not to us the blame Of them that flee, ...
My brother comes home from work and climbs the stairs to our room. I can hear the bed groan and ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories