The Apollyonists – Canto 1 (Phineas Fletcher Poems)
IOf men, nay beasts; worse, monsters; worst of all,Incarnate fiends, English Italianate;Of priests, O no! mass-priests, priests-cannibal,Who make their Maker, ...
IOf men, nay beasts; worse, monsters; worst of all,Incarnate fiends, English Italianate;Of priests, O no! mass-priests, priests-cannibal,Who make their Maker, ...
Lowliness befits thee, violence suits thee not; a, naked man frantic in a bee-house is out of place. Leave aside ...
Through what strange winding ways of circumstance,Through what conspiracies of time and chance,By what long chain of hands, from his ...
O SPIRIT! at whose wafts of chilling breathAutumn unbinds her zone, to rest in death;Touched by whose blight the light ...
Aspasie, trillistos. I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with ...
Blessed Death! thou op'st the doorTo the Grand Forevermore!Unto thee the task is givenTo unbar the gates of Heaven!Thou alone ...
O king! what is the quest that evermore Foredooms thy feet to roam, yet blinds thine eyes? ...
I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed ...
O THOU, the first, the greatest friend Of all the human race! Whose strong right hand has ever been Their ...
So swift the hours are moving Unto the time unproved: Farewell my love unloving, Farewell my love beloved! What! are ...
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