The Dance To Death. Act III (Emma Lazarus Poems)
ACT III. A cell in the Wartburg Monastery. Enter PRIOR PEPPERCORN with the casket.PRIOR.So! Glittering shell where doubtless shines concealedAn ...
Poems about monastery (20 Poems)
At The Gate (Edith Nesbit Poems)
THE monastery towers, as pure and fairAs virgin vows, reached up white hands to Heaven;The walls, to guard the hidden ...
Death Of Archbishop Malachy (Archbishop William Alexander Poems)
Late, late, in the October afternoon,The monks sat listening spellbound in the choir;The voice went ringing on, a lovely tune,A ...
Poems (Elizabeth Bath Poems)
Musing on the changes that are observable in many of the scenes we contemplate, the circumstance of the spot on ...
Forest History (George Meredith Poems)
I.Beneath the vans of doom did men pass in.Heroic who came out; for round them hungA wavering phantom's red volcano ...
The Mandan Priest (Edward William Thompson Poems)
THEY call me now the Indian Priest,Their fathers' fathers did not so,The very Mandan name hath ceasedFrom speech since fifty ...
Fra Pedro (Emma Lazarus Poems)
Golden lights and lengthening shadows,Flings the splendid sun declining,O'er the monastery gardenRich in flower, fruit and foliage.Through the avenue of ...
Unshriven (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
Oh! the sun rose on the lea, and the bird sang merrilie, And the steed stood ready harness'd in the ...
Psalm (Georg Trakl Poems)
It is a light, that the wind has extinguished.It is a pub on the heath, that a drunk departs in ...
The Abbot (Constance Naden Poems)
SLOWLY, with dream-like sadness, tolled The monastery bell; The Abbot of those cloisters old Lay dead within his cell. The ...
On a fateful day, an unlucky time (Boris Pasternak Poems)
On a fateful day, an unlucky time,Unannounced, it may happen thus:Stifling, blacker still than a monasteryUtter madness descends on us.Bitter ...
The Vision (Atom Yarjanian Poems)
O miracle, O immaterial fire of faith, O astoundingly acting might, O fiery talisman, O unsolvable mystery, There, a Seraphim ...
The Ministry of the Pans (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
She invoked his story, his memory, his ministry of the pans washing the pots, the pans of the monastery, humble ...
The Picture (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
Manuel Komninos (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
One dreary September day Emperor Manuel Komninos felt his death was near. The court astrologers -bribed, of course- went on ...
Picnic, Lightning (Billy Collins Poem)
It is possible to be struck by a meteor or a single-engine plane while reading in a chair at home. ...
Studio Composition (Joseph Mayo Wristen Poems)
Cup of Words Crystal sphere sitting Before child like statue Words of Lennon mixed In a clay Klee fish bowl ...
Tranquillity (Robert William Service Poems)
Oh if it were not for my wife And family increase, How gladly would I close my life In monastery ...
Necrological (John Crowe Ransom Poems)
The friar had said his paternosters duly And scourged his limbs, and afterwards would have slept; But with much riddling ...
Wittgenstein’s Ladder (David Lehman Poems)
"My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands them eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he ...