To The Dead Cardinal Of Westminster (Francis Thompson Poems)
I will not perturbateThy Paradisal stateWith praiseOf thy dead days;To the new-heavened say, -"Spirit, thou wert fine clay:"This do,Thy praise ...
I will not perturbateThy Paradisal stateWith praiseOf thy dead days;To the new-heavened say, -"Spirit, thou wert fine clay:"This do,Thy praise ...
To the Editor Mr. Editor,—The riddling lines which I send you, were written upon a young lady ...
O PRISON-HOUSE of sighing!Where the weary and the worn,The long-pent and the dying,Lie friendless and forlorn;Where sickness preys on weariness,And ...
O CHRIST, born on the holy day, I have no gift to give my King; No flowers grow ...
We are as mendicants who waitAlong the roadside in the sun.Tatters of yesterday and shredsOf morrow clothe us every one.And ...
Tired with dull grief, grown old before my day,I sit in solitude and only hearLong silent laughters, murmurings of dismay,The ...
NO better Dog e'er kept his Master's Door Than honest Snarl, who spar'd nor Rich nor Poor; But gave the ...
There was a moment when of you A splendid hope I had to tell,Believing "Here is one man who ...
Cinna, the great Venusian told In songs that will not dieHow in Augustan days of old Your love did glorifyHis ...
O Death! why dost thou steal the great,With grudging like to strongest hate,And rob the world of giant minds,For whom ...
Beachcomber on the shores of tearsLimning the gestures of defeatIn dancers, whores, and opera-stars -The lonely, lighted various streetYou sauntered ...
(June 21st, 1887) By the well, where the bullocks go Silent and blind and slow -- By the field where ...
1917 (To Lyde of the Music Halls) What boots it on the Gods to call? Since, answered or unheard, We ...
Cinna, the great Venusian told In songs that will not die How in Augustan days of old Your love did ...
NO better Dog e'er kept his Master's Door Than honest Snarl, who spar'd nor Rich nor Poor; But gave the ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Dusting my books I spent a busy day: Not ancient toes, time-hallowed and unread, but modern volumes, classics in their ...
THrise happie she, that is so well assured Vnto her selfe and setled so in hart: that nether will for ...
SHE fell away in her first ages spring, Whil'st yet her leafe was greene, and fresh her rinde, And whil'st ...
Hot August noon: already on that day Since sunrise through the Wiltshire downs, most sad Of mouth and eye, he ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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