The Statues In The Block (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
"LOVE is the secret of the world," he said;"The cup we drain and still desire to drink.The loadstone hungers for ...
"LOVE is the secret of the world," he said;"The cup we drain and still desire to drink.The loadstone hungers for ...
Some die too late and some too soon,At early morning, heat of noon,Or the chill evening twilight. Thou,Whom the rich ...
When summer's languor drugs my veinsAnd fills with sleep the droning times,Like sluggish dreams among my brains,There runs the drollest ...
For surfeit of the civilized, Silence atones,A soughing wind in tamarack, Stones;With nothing but a burro train, Stars for a goalAnd monolith for ...
AN APOSTROPHE TO THE MOON.O, silvery moon, fair mistress of the night,Thou mellow, ever vaccilating orb,How many eons of unmeasured ...
We had many problems set us when Coolgardie was a camp,When the journey to the goldfields meant a coach-fare or ...
With leagues of wasteful water ringed about,And wrapped in sheeted foam from base to peak,A sheer, stupendous monolith, wrought outBy ...
There is a cliff, no matter where, Which softened by the agenciesOf rain, exposure to the air, And alternating thaw ...
A monster like a mountain, leathern limbed,With eyes of sluggish ore and claws of stone, He heaved his thunder-throated body, ...
Si credere dignum est.--Virgil, Georgics, III, 390 Oh, worthy of belief I hold it was, Virgil, your legend in those ...
(To Marcel Schwob in friendship and in admiration) In a dim corner of my room for longer than my fancy ...
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