Festus – XIV (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Even while a starMight twinkle twice, or calm, retiring sea,Irresolute yet to leave, his moonlit kissShimmering repeat upon the impassive ...
Even while a starMight twinkle twice, or calm, retiring sea,Irresolute yet to leave, his moonlit kissShimmering repeat upon the impassive ...
Scene.--Before the Cavern of the Indian Enchantress.The Enchantress comes forth.Enchantress.He came like a dream in the dawn of life, He fled ...
His letter lies before me here,Scarce written ere the hand grew coldThat traced the lines so fine and clear,Which still ...
Again tonight I read "Before Disaster,"The tense memento of a willThat's striven thirty years to masterOne chaos with one spirit's ...
YOU need not envy lovers who are never apart:For not in the pin-point starry conflagrationOf touch or kissDeepest contentment is,But ...
Daybreak.CHORUS OF PLANETARY SPIRITS.YE interstellar spaces, serene and still and clear.Above, below, around!Ye gray unmeasured breadths of ether, - sphere ...
Read by the poet at The Public Ceremonial of The National Institute of Arts and Letters at Carnegie Hall, New ...
WHITE, cold, and sacred is my chosen home, A seat for gods, a mount divine; And from the height of ...
SHEPHERD Not the blue-fountained Florida hotel, Bell-capped, bellevued, straight-jacketed and decked With chromium palms and a fromage of moon, Not ...
When quacks with pills political would dope us, When politics absorbs the livelong day, I like to think ...
For Lincoln MacVeagh Never tell me that not one star of all That slip from heaven at night and softly ...
Love has earth to which she clings With hills and circling arms about-- Wall within wall to shut fear out. ...
I In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, ...
Night. O you whose countenance, dissolved in deepness, hovers above my face. You who are the heaviest counterweight to my ...
Read by the poet at The Public Ceremonial of The Naional Institute of Arts and Letters at Carnegie Hall, New ...
When I die, I will see the lining of the world. The other side, beyond bird, mountain, sunset. The true ...
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