The Armada Gun (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
An ancient cannon, finely cast. Of bronze, all smooth and green with age, A by-gone actor on the stage,Yet fit to take, ...
An ancient cannon, finely cast. Of bronze, all smooth and green with age, A by-gone actor on the stage,Yet fit to take, ...
For all its flowers and trailing bowers,Its singing birds and streams,This valley's not the blissful spot,The paradise, it seems.I don't ...
_"From his honoured friend, William Davenant"_Poet of mighty power, I fainWould court the muse that honoured thee,And, like Elisha's spirit, ...
There is a hornet in the roomand one of us will have to goout the window into the lateAugust midafternoon ...
Here, at its base, in dingled deeps Of spice-bush, where the ivy creeps, The cold spring scoops its hollow; And there three mossy ...
Our tank stood on a crazy stand,Bare to the burning sun,White hot as glares the desert sand,And dismal to the ...
"I write about the butterfly, It is a pretty thing; And flies about like the birds, But it does not sing. "First it is ...
Like as the weapons make towards the pebbled shrapnel,So do our misalliances hasten to their engine;Each changing plaint with that ...
The hornets build in plaster-dropping rooms,And on its mossy porch the lizard lies;Around its chimneys slow the swallow flies,And on ...
How strangely like a churchyard skullThe thing that's there amongst the leaves!A Hornets' nest; but stir the branchAnd they'll be ...
On Tampa's hights gray rose the battlements:A summer's day had gone out in the west;The conflagration in the elementsWas ended, ...
The Representation.ARGUMENT. Mundus Opes, Animam Coelum, Terramque resumpsit Terra: DEUS, Vitam cum tulit, Ipse dedit. Solus Amor facit esse DEUM; ...
August 13: 1704 Oft hast thou acted thy part, My country, worthily thee! Lifted ...
"Once more 'twas spring! The meadow-lark gave noteAbout his grassy nest, and builders hummed Old songs while sod on sod ...
as freedom is a breakfastfoodor truth can live with right and wrongor molehills are from mountains made-long enough and just ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
Because there was no other place to flee to, I came back to the scene of the disordered senses, came ...
There can be certain potions needled in the clock for the body's fall from grace, to untorture and to plead ...
Could he have made Priscilla share The paradise that he had planned, Llewellyn would have loved his wife As well ...
[As a Tribute of Esteem and Admiration this Poem is inscribed to ROBERT MERRY, Esq. A. M. Member of the ...
Kanzo Makame, the diver, sturdy and small Japanee, Seeker of pearls and of pearl-shell down in the depths of the ...
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