from Abdul Of Timbuctoo: (Henry Pelham Holmes Bromwell Poems)
Alone where the stretching desert's way Lay wild and hard in the shimmering heat; Where the jagged rocks in the scorching ray Pressed ...
Alone where the stretching desert's way Lay wild and hard in the shimmering heat; Where the jagged rocks in the scorching ray Pressed ...
SEATED in a Moorish garden On the Sahel of Algiers, Wandering breezes brought the burden Of its history in past ...
What knight or what vassal will be so bold As to plunge in the gulf below?See! I hurl in its ...
From Schiller"Which of you, knight or squire, will darePlunge into yonder gulf?A golden beaker I fling in it—there!The black mouth ...
"Just as day began to dawnGilgamesh addressed his friend, saying: ""Enkidu, your mother, the gazelle, and your father, ...
Base is the purpose of this Epic Song,Baneful its powers: but, oh, the Poesy("What can it less when Sun-born GENIUS ...
Deep in the heart of the jungle, Close to the white man's grave,Where the goldfish have beards that stick out ...
Within the precincts of this yard,Each in his narrow confines barred,Dwells every beast that can be foundOn Afric or on ...
The jungle law is broken; From forest, field and plain, The beasts and birds have spoken, ...
I looked into my heart to write And found a desert there.But when I looked again I heardHowling and ...
There once was a happy Hyena Who played on an old concertina. He dressed very well, And in ...
Beside the ungathered rice he lay, His sickle in his hand; His breast was bare, his matted hair Was buried ...
St. Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through ...
Crashing waves on a rocky coast, rain falling on parched ground The cry of a newborn baby, the call of ...
Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you ...
The bows glided down, and the coast Blackened with birds took a last look At his thrashing hair and whale-blue ...
"What knight or what vassal will be so bold As to plunge in the gulf below? See! I hurl in ...
O thou who from the mountain's height Roll'st down thy clouds with all their weight Of waters to old Niles ...
Nothing is given which is not taken. Little or nothing is taken which is not freely desired, freely, truly and ...
(published on BLINKING EYE, http://www.blinking-eye.co.uk/writer/padel2.html ) Then spoke the thunder, shattering the looming blackness of our national life. The rumble ...
[How different people and different animals look upon the moon: showing that each creature finds in it his own mood ...
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