The Gulf of All Human Possessions (Jonathan Swift Poems)
Come hither, and behold the fruits,Vain man! of all thy vain pursuits.Take wise advice, and look behind,Bring all past actions ...
Come hither, and behold the fruits,Vain man! of all thy vain pursuits.Take wise advice, and look behind,Bring all past actions ...
O vale of visionary rest!-Hushed as the grave it liesWith heaving banks of tenderest greenYet brightly, happily serene,As cloud-vale of ...
(For Kenneth)CLOSE upon the window-glass pressed our eager faces-Hearts and torches all aflare, frame on frame of laces,Wreathing roses all ...
Let the classic pilgrim rove,By Egeria's fount to stand,Or sit in Vancluse's grot of love,Afar from his native land;Let him ...
A budding mouth and warm blue eyes;A laughing face; and laughing hair,-So ruddy was its riseFrom off that forehead fair;Frank ...
I wonder sometimes if the soldiers lyingunder the soil, wrapped in their coats like beggarssleeping under an arch, their hands ...
SO with this farewell kiss I taste at lastThe all of life; the Future and the PastUpon your dear lips ...
The Bell in the convent tower swung. High overhead the great sun hung, A navel for the curving sky. The ...
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