At the Opera (Victor James Daley Poems)
THE CURTAIN rose-the play began-The limelight on the gay garbs shone;Yet carelessly I gazed uponThe painted players, maid and man,As ...
THE CURTAIN rose-the play began-The limelight on the gay garbs shone;Yet carelessly I gazed uponThe painted players, maid and man,As ...
Spirit of solitude, silence, and rest,Take me once more, like a child, to your breast!Weary of worldliness, turmoil, and hate,Welcome ...
THE far guns boom: shell-struck the church is rolledSkyward athunder, dust of rose and gold:The staring villa stands. So goes ...
Me photer's in the papers! 'Oly wars! A 'ero, I've been called in big, black type. I 'ad ...
A single brown oak leave perched in the purple chrysanthemums in the window box outside the back door A peasant ...
You whom the kings saluted; who refused not The one great pleasure of ignoble days, Fame without name and glory ...
You were the one I wanted most to know So like yet unlike, like fire and snow, The casual voice, ...
The actor struts his little hour, Between the limelight and the band; The public feel the actor's power, Yet nothing ...
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