A Quest for Tophet (C J Dennis Poems)
'Twas a hell of a Hell they glimpsed, my son, In superstitious daysWhen cultured man had scarce begun To ...
'Twas a hell of a Hell they glimpsed, my son, In superstitious daysWhen cultured man had scarce begun To ...
BEHOLD yonder Maniac! how swiftly she flies, O'er hills, and o'er mountains, still deep'ning her sighs,She laughs at the ...
BEHOLD yonder Maniac! how swiftly she flies, O'er hills, and o'er mountains, still deep'ning her sighs,She laughs at the ...
"OVER the moor a lady fair Took her way so sadly; Her face was pale, her bosom bare, Sweet she ...
Old man Stitch-away, old man Sails,With his long grey beard, he's hard as nails;His teeth are yellow, and his eyes ...
The stage was set, the house was packed,The famous troop began;Our laughter thundered, act by act;Time light as sunbeams ran.Dance ...
Night-long I heard the poignant undertone, The interminable sobbing of the sea; And now that morn breaks dim ...
OR,THE MANIAC'S SONG. COME, ye wild winds, that round the welkin fly,Bear the sad Lelia on your wings of air,Then ...
Ah, what a changeling! Yester you dashed from the west, Altho' it is Spring, And scattered ...
GO! cruel tyrant of the human breast!To other hearts thy burning arrows bear;Go, where fond hope, and fair illusion rest;Ah! ...
"I have heard the sunset song of the birches, A white melody in the silence, I have seen a quarrel ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
WHILE virgin Spring by Eden's flood, Unfolds her tender mantle green, Or pranks the sod in frolic mood, Or tunes ...
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
Author Note: The story of the following ballad was related to me, when a school boy, as a fact which ...
Poussin! most pleasantly thy pictur'd scenes Beguile the lonely hour; I sit and gaze With lingering eye, till charmed FANCY ...
(France, August first, 1914) Far and near, high and clear, Hark to the call of War! Over the gorse and ...
Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not my time, the flood that does not flow. Between the ...
What are we fighting for, We fellows who go to war? fighting for Freedom's sake! (You give me the belly-ache.) ...
Swift as a spirit hastening to his task Of glory & of good, the Sun sprang forth Rejoicing in his ...
'Twas on a Mountain, near the Western Main An ALIEN dwelt. A solitary Hut Built on a jutting crag, o'erhung ...
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