Our Corrugated Iron Tank (Hal Gye Poems)
Our tank stood on a crazy stand,Bare to the burning sun,White hot as glares the desert sand,And dismal to the ...
Our tank stood on a crazy stand,Bare to the burning sun,White hot as glares the desert sand,And dismal to the ...
"PHILIP my king", ay, still thou art a king,Though storms of sorrow on thy suffering headHave flashed and thundered through ...
MankindFace to face with the fire-abyss,thundering hooves, the doomed brows of warriors,across the blood-fog bootsteps echo, the iron death knells,surrender, ...
Here in the noisy nightIs his delight.Where maxims pourTheir thudding leadUpon the groundAnd on the shore.He revels in the sound,And ...
Small flock of blackbirds passing bywho seize the knellsof the old belland carry them off.And all the airis still and ...
Rough wind, that moanest loudGrief too sad for song;Wild wind, when sullen cloudKnells all the night long;Sad storm whose tears ...
Freedom, thy son is dead!Once more the solemn treadOf the long, slow cortege echoes to throbsOf a nation's heart, and ...
The spot is flaked with mist, that fills,Thickening into rolls more dank,The thresholds and the window-sills,And smokes on every bank.The ...
Why, when I hear the stormy breathOf the wild winter windRushing o'er the mountain heath,Does sadness fill my mind? For ...
The "Bride" o' Leith swings out to sea, Breasting the snow-white foam,And the pier is thronged with waving hands, ...
THE day is dark and the nightTo him that would search their heart;No lips of cloud that will partNor morning ...
WILLIE, fold your little hands; Let it drop, that "soldier" toy: Look where father's picture stands,-- Father, who here kissed ...
THE world has grown so grey, love,The weary world so wide;And autumn seems to stay, love -'T was autumn when ...
Sun of autumn, thin and shyAnd fruit drops off the trees,Blue silence fills the peaceOf a tardy afternoon's sky.Death knells ...
--And yet this great wink of eternity, Of rimless floods, unfettered leewardings, Samite sheeted and processioned where Her undinal vast ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
When stretch'd on one's bed With a fierce-throbbing head, Which preculdes alike thought or repose, How little one cares For ...
In the mustardseed sun, By full tilt river and switchback sea Where the cormorants scud, In his house on stilts ...
GO(D) knows, my Martial, if we two could be To enjoy our days set wholly free; To the true life ...
I. Where freezing wastes of dazzl'ing Snow O'er LEMAN'S Lake rose, tow'ring; The BARON GOLFRE'S Castle strong Was seen, the ...
I Hear the sledges with the bells- Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, ...
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