The Young Adventurers (Michael Earls Poems)
We will go adventuring, will you come adventuring,Hail, to all who sail with us the seven pleasant seas:All the shores ...
We will go adventuring, will you come adventuring,Hail, to all who sail with us the seven pleasant seas:All the shores ...
Look on the dead. Stately and pure he liesUnder the white sheet's marble folds. For himThe solemn bier, the scented ...
SUFFERING! and yet majestical in pain;Mysterious! yet, like spring-showers in the sun,Veiling the light with their melodious rain,Life is a ...
Come to the waters, ye who thirst, The waters of salvation's springs;Come, ye benighted! to the burst Of morning, which the Gospel ...
Proemion.Immeasurable Earth!Through the loud vast and populacy of Heaven,Tempested with gold schools of ponderous orbs,That cleav'st with deep-revolting harmoniesPassage perpetual, ...
The sun hath set; the outworn armies sleep: But, in Arbaces' tent, by summons called For counsel secret on things ...
An ode after Easter.Cast wide the folding doorways of the East,For now is light increased!And the wind-besomed chambers of the ...
Caleb went, as was his custom, On a quiet Sunday morn,To the house of prayer and worship, Thither by devotion ...
Hearken my chant, 'tisAs a Bacchante's,A grape-spurt, a vine-splash, a tossed tress, flown vaunt 'tis!Suffer my singing,Gipsy of Seasons, ere ...
O swift forerunners, rosy with the race!Spirits of dawn, divinely manifestBehind your blushing banners in the sky,Daring invaders of Night's ...
This labouring, vast, Tellurian galleon,Riding at anchor off the orient sun,Had broken its cable, and stood out to spaceDown some ...
In her last hour of life the treeGave up her glorious memories,Wild scent of wood anemone,The sapphire blue of April ...
The shepherd's brow, fronting forked lightning, owns The horror and the havoc and the glory Of it. Angels fall, they ...
Be you still, be you still, trembling heart; Remember the wisdom out of the old days: Him who trembles before ...
I Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star Take heart in heaven from eastward, while the west, Fulfilled of watery ...
Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, ...
I rode one evening with Count Maddalo Upon the bank of land which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice: ...
It was in the days of a gay British King (In the old fashion'd custom of merry-making) The Palace of ...
POOR little child, my pretty boy, Why did the hunter mark thee out? Wert thou betrayed by thine own joy? ...
I CANNOT hold, for though to write were rude, Yet to be silent were Ingratitude, And Folly too; for if ...
SEE how the speckled sky burns like a pigeon's throat, Jewelled with embers of opal and peridote. See the white ...
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