Meditation on a Bone (Alec Derwent Hope Poem)
A piece of bone, found at Trondhjem in 1901, with the following runic inscription (about A.D. 1050) cut on it: ...
A piece of bone, found at Trondhjem in 1901, with the following runic inscription (about A.D. 1050) cut on it: ...
Father is quite the greatest poet That ever lived anywhere. You say you're going to write great music- I chose ...
In the silence of the night Death descended from God toward the earth. He hovered above a city and pierced ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Ere on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use to pray With moving lips or ...
Stranger, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs, The not-incurious in God's handiwork (This man's-flesh he hath admirably made, Blown like a ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
The first time that the sun rose on thine oath To love me, I looked forward to the moon To ...
When I bethink me on that speech whilere, Of Mutability, and well it weigh: Me seems,that though she all unworthy ...
You think I cannot understand. Ah, but I do... I have been wrung with anger and compassion for you. I ...
Ah whither, Love, wilt thou now carry me? What wontless fury dost thou now inspire Into my feeble breast, too ...
Take it away, and swallow it yourself. Ha! Look you, there's a rat. Last night there were a dozen on ...
Because he puts the compromising chart Of hell before your eyes, you are afraid; Because he counts the price that ...
Is it to love, to fix the tender gaze, To hide the timid blush, and steal away; To shun the ...
I would bathe myself in strangeness: These comforts heaped upon me, smother me! I burn, I scald so for the ...
As I lie at rest on a patch of clover In the Western Park when the day is done. I ...
My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky; Contrariwise, my blood runs cold When little boys ...
I know that he told how I snared his soul With a snare which bled him to death. And all ...
I WONDER if with you, as it is with me, If under your slipping words, that easily flow About you ...
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