From “The House of a Hundred Lights” (Frederic Ridgely Torrence Poems)
"THE YOUNG LOVERSI SAW them kissing in the shade and knew the sum of all my lore: God gave them ...
"THE YOUNG LOVERSI SAW them kissing in the shade and knew the sum of all my lore: God gave them ...
Gyved and chained in his father's home, He toiled 'neath a conqueror's rule;Bowed to the earth in the land of ...
Beneath the solemn stars that lightThe dread infinitudes of night,Mid wintry solitudes that lieWhere lonely Hecla's toweling pyreReddens an awful ...
FRIEND of old days, of suffering, storm, and strife, Patient and kind through many a wild appeal; In the arena ...
The dial has pointed the hour and the hour has rounded the day, The day has finished the ...
He gleaned all the gossip and he gathered all the news, Mad Matt, the carrier, delivering the grub;He knew ...
Seized from strong foes by England's might, Gleaned from the world's-end far and wide,The trappings and the pomp of fight ...
Across the veld the homeless wind goes wailing, O'er leagues of heath and grassland wild and brown,And the broad ...
I'm up against it day by day,My ignorance is distressing;The things I don't know on the wayI'm busily confessing.Time was ...
The gloom that breathes upon me with these airsIs like the drops which strike the traveller's browWho knows not, darkling, ...
Behold a billowy sea of golden spears That to and fro in every breeze that blows Tosses its amber waves ...
To what serves mortal beauty '-dangerous; does set danc- ing blood-the O-seal-that-so ' feature, flung prouder form Than Purcell tune ...
thoth (who became hermes who became mercury) who was both moon and wisdom to the egyptians manifested himself mainly as ...
I was here from the moment of the Beginning, and here I am still. And I shall remain here until ...
Enduring an inguinal hernia repair can drive you to despair, it is a monumental nonsense; in my defence I hadn't ...
Can we not force from widow'd poetry, Now thou art dead (great Donne) one elegy To crown thy hearse? Why ...
O'er the dark pines she sees the silver moon, And in the west, all tremulous, a star; And soothing sweet ...
I just think that dreams are best, Just to sit and fancy things; Give your gold no acid test, Try ...
Lo! a ripe sheaf of many golden days Gleaned by the year in autumn's harvest ways, With here and there, ...
Not, where the stairway turns in the dark, A hooded figure, shriveled under a flowing cloak! Not yellow eyes in ...
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