Porcelain Pavilion (Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev Poems)
Amidst the waters of a man-made lake,A porcelain pavilion rises high.The way to it is lead by jasper bridgeThat's cambered ...
Amidst the waters of a man-made lake,A porcelain pavilion rises high.The way to it is lead by jasper bridgeThat's cambered ...
We were hungry, tired and dirty,From our shoulders rifles hung,Our clothes were torn, our faces bronzedBy long hours in the ...
Last was the wealth I carried in life's pack—Youth, health, ambition, hope and trust but TimeAnd Fate, those robbers fit ...
'A Lyttl Sooth Sermun.' If, on December 31, When the old year is nearly run, And night is nearing twelve ...
Veils, everywhere float veils; veils long and black,Framing white faces, oft-times young and fair,But, like a rose touched by untimely ...
Cloying her lips as the honeycomb, smooth are the words of her mouth,But her feet in the paths of the ...
She knows the Mallee's tragedy Of thwarted hope, of pain,Of promise wrecked, when weak men flee And strong men pray ...
Yarrawonga by herselfLived too long upon a shelf She a stolid farmer's wife. Far remote from modern strifeDrowsily beside her ...
Go, if you will; you will not be the firstThat looked for beauty in a field or stream,Nor the last ...
But when the war-worn, knowing all Of glory, horror and hate,Abandons all for the heart's sure call And the need ...
Then a lawyer said, "But what of our Laws, master?" And he answered: You delight in laying down laws, Yet ...
God's judgment on the whole people on each one individually personally responsible following false prophets corrupt leaders bowing to man-made ...
Not through man-made lenses only through the eyes of God seeking the truth what we should believe So many other ...
The question on "what is beauty" my mind immediately calling up the quote, "beauty is in the eye of the ...
The picture on the bulletin the devastation caught in miniature a handful of people standing before a bit of rubble ...
Whangaehu waters, hot-spilled from the cauldron of Crater Lake, swirling mud-green from the cup between Tahurangi and Pyramid Peak, sulphurous, ...
Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air, Reach to its rest, ...
Runs to no compass point But starts within the human heart Where travellers in twos may go As for a ...
Like Oedipus I am losing my sight. LIke Judas I have done my wrong. Their punishment is over; the shame ...
The cow-moose comes to water, and the beaver's overbold, The net is in the eddy of the stream; The teepee ...
Freedom. How her spirit Haunts, Hooks, Entices us all! Freedom, Will the time come For my ideas to roam Across ...
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