Kapiolani (John Oxenham Poems)
Where the great green combers break in thunder on the barrier reefs,--Where, unceasing, sounds the mighty diapason of the deep,--Ringed ...
Where the great green combers break in thunder on the barrier reefs,--Where, unceasing, sounds the mighty diapason of the deep,--Ringed ...
1. THE GARDEN Poco sostenuto in A majorThe laying tide of inarticulate air. Vivace in A majorThe iris people dance. 2. THE POOL Allegretto ...
To Colonel Goethals and the Other Laborers in the Canal ZoneIn lazy laughing Panama-O flutter of ribbon 'twixt the seas!-The ...
Beat on the Tom-toms, and scatter the flowers, Jasmin, Hibiscus, vermillion and white,This is the day, and the Hour of Hours, Bring ...
The Temple bells are ringing,The young green corn is springing, And the marriage month is drawing very near.I lie hidden in ...
White clouds are sailing above the Mountain Jiuyi;Riding the wind, the Princesses descend the green hills.Once they speckled the bamboos ...
By the ruined mansion,Fowls roamingAmong the hibiscus(Masaoka Shiki)
(Kamo-no-Chomei, born at Kamo 1154, died at Toyama on Mount Hino, 24th June 1216) Swirl sleeping in the waterfall! On ...
_Hark! Hark!The dogs do bark!It's the socialists come to town,None in rags and none in tags,Swaggering up and down_.Sunday morning,And ...
China's Emperor, craving beauty that might shake an empire, Was on the throne for many years, searching, never finding, Till ...
THE WIDE sun stares without a cloud: Whipped by his glances truculent The earth lies quivering and cowed. ...
(_Peradeniya, Ceylon_)IThe sun moves here as a master-mage of nature all day long, With fingers of heat and light that ...
Let us not talk philosophy, drop it, Jeanne. So many words, so much paper, who can stand it. I told ...
What is the lure of the South Seas' songThat sings in the hearts of men so long?What are its languorous, ...
There by his side in chariot rideth she, As lovely flower of the hibiscus tree, So fair her face; and ...
There is fog upon the river, there is mirk upon the town; You can hear the groping ferries as they ...
All the air conditioners now slacken their hummed carrier wave. Once again we've served our three months with remissions in ...
Let us not talk philosophy, drop it, Jeanne. So many words, so much paper, who can stand it. I told ...
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