Festus – XLV (Philip James Bailey Poems)
'Twas held of old by some heresiarch sage,Whose nobler name time bruits not overmuch,That evil and good, twin powers, as ...
'Twas held of old by some heresiarch sage,Whose nobler name time bruits not overmuch,That evil and good, twin powers, as ...
ANOTHER and another! 'Tis the stillAnd solemn hour of midnight. Not a soundOf mortal life disturbs the awful calmThat rests ...
YOUR face, my boy, when six months old,We propped you laughing in a chair,And the sun-artist caught the goldWhich rippled ...
A FEW brief years have passed awaySince Britain drove her million slavesBeneath the tropic's fiery ray:God willed their freedom; and ...
THE glorious queen of heaven, who flingsHer royal radiance round me now,As with clasped hands and upturned browI watch her ...
AH, forest sweetheart! over land and seaI come once more, once more to stand by thee;My sylvan darling! set 'twixt ...
(A REPLY)Yes, I was wrong about the phoebe-bird.Two songs it has, and both of them I've heard:I did not know ...
Although a curtain of the salt sea-mistMay fall between the actor and our eyes -Although he change, for dear and ...
All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood; I turned and looked another ...
Weep for the martyr! Strew his bierWith the last roses of the year;Shadow the land with sables; knellThe harsh-tongued, melancholy ...
Gray clouds my heaven have covered o'er;My sea ebbs fast, no more to flow;Ghastly and dry, my desert shoreParched, bare, ...
DOES a man ever give up hope, I wonder, -- Face the grim fact, seeing it clear as day? When ...
All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood; I turned and looked another ...
I thought he was dumb, said he was dumb, Yet I've heard him cry. First faint scream, Out of life's ...
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