The Infant St. John, The Baptist (Nathan Covington Brooks Poems)
O sweeter than the breath of southern windWith all its perfumes is the whisper'd prayerFrom infant lips, and gentler than ...
O sweeter than the breath of southern windWith all its perfumes is the whisper'd prayerFrom infant lips, and gentler than ...
HERE in this wrecked storm-wasted garden-closeThe grave of infinite generations fledOf flowers that now lay lustreless and dead,As the gray ...
I awoke in the Midsummer not to call night, in the white and the walk of themorning:The moon, dwindled and ...
IThe sister Hours in circles linked,Daughters of men, of men the mates,Are gone on flow with the day that winked,With ...
Dull, yellow, heavy, lustreless-- With less of radiance than the burnished tress, Crumpled on Beauty's forehead: cloddish, cold, ...
The sea has left the strand- In their deep sapphire cup The waves lie gathered up, Off ...
My eyes are cold, and brazen are my lips,My smile is bold, but sometimes longing slipsThe leash of circumstance, and ...
A bed sorrow-circled,And a pale dying daughter there, With lustreless eyeAnd tresses of tangled hair. With forehead that freezesThe kiss ...
They have watered the street,It shines in the glare of lamps,Cold, white lamps,And liesLike a slow-moving river,Barred with silver and ...
I think when I stand in the presence of Death, How futile is earthy endeavor,If it be, with the flight ...
We will have beds filled with light scent, andcouches deep as a tomb,and strange flowers in the room,blooming for us ...
They have watered the street, It shines in the glare of lamps, Cold, white lamps, And lies Like a slow-moving ...
I Frindsbury, Kent, 1786 Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the ...
(For Warren Winslow, Dead At Sea) Let man have dominion over the fishes of the sea and the fowls of ...
How they strut about, people in love, How tall they grow, pleased with themselves, Their hair, glossy, their skin shining. ...
I awoke in the Midsummer not to call night, in the white and the walk of the morning: The moon, ...
Tra-la-la-la-la-la-laire-nil nisi divinum stabile est; caetera fumus-the gondola stopped, the old palace was there, how charming its grey and pink-goats ...
In a cool curving world he lies And ripples with dark ecstasies. The kind luxurious lapse and steal Shapes all ...
The brave Geraint, a knight of Arthur's court, A tributary prince of Devon, one Of that great Order of the ...
Behold these jewelled, merchant Ancestors, Foregathered in some chancellery of death; Calm, provident, discreet, they stroke their beards And move ...
--The Carpathian Frontier, October, 1968 --for my brother Once, in a foreign country, I was suddenly ill. I was driving ...
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