Great Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) (Cicely Fox Smith Poems)
Who were the builders of Great Zimbabwe?No man knows . . .Who were thoseThat quarried, chiseled, hewed,Laid stone on stone,Till ...
Who were the builders of Great Zimbabwe?No man knows . . .Who were thoseThat quarried, chiseled, hewed,Laid stone on stone,Till ...
Around and beneath, the dull grey mist and the sullen roar of the sea,Scant footing-place on the sheer cliffs face-with ...
These, then, he left, and away where ranks were now clashing the thickest,Onward rushed, and with ...
This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:— There spread a cloud of dust along a plain; And underneath ...
Where the wild sea-mew flocks and flees, And neither winds nor skies beguile, Foam-set amid the Irish seas ...
I that hewed and nailed my crossMust bear it to its hill.I must walk beneath the weightAnd be still ... ...
"Give me of your bark, O Birch-tree! Of your yellow bark, O Birch-tree! Growing by the rushing river, Tall and ...
See you the ferny ride that steals Into the oak-woods far? O that was whence they hewed the keels That ...
We are very slightly changed From the semi-apes who ranged India's Prehistoric clay; He that drew the longest bow Ran ...
Read here: This is the story of Evarra -- man -- Maker of Gods in lands beyond the sea. Because ...
The church flings forth a battled shade Over the moon-blanched sward: The church; my gift; whereto I paid My all ...
When a man starts out with nothing, When a man starts out with his hands Empty, but clean, When a ...
And thou wert sad-yet I was not with thee! And thou wert sick, and yet I was not near; Methought ...
What was he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river? Spreading ruin and scattering ban, ...
"Tie stille, barn min! Imorgen kommer Fin, Fa'er din, Og gi'er dich Esbern Snares öine og hjerte at lege med!" ...
Sweet, harmless lives! (on whose holy leisure Waits innocence and pleasure), Whose leaders to those pastures, and clear springs, Were ...
'Twas in the year 1715, and on the 10th of November, Which the people of Scotland have cause to remember; ...
Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining ...
Would I might wake in you the whirl-wind soul Of Michelangelo, who hewed the stone And Night and Day revealed, ...
I. GOD SEND THE REGICIDE Would that the lying rulers of the world Were brought to block for tyrannies abhorred. ...
A Story of Christmas Eve. Strange that the termagant winds should scold The Christmas Eve so bitterly! But Wife, and ...
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