From “God and the Soul” (John Lancaster Spalding Poems)
Nature And The ChildFOR many blessings I to God upraiseA thankful heart; the life He gives is fairAnd sweet and ...
Nature And The ChildFOR many blessings I to God upraiseA thankful heart; the life He gives is fairAnd sweet and ...
To Day, as at my Glass I stood,To set my Head--cloaths, and my Hood;I saw my grizzled Locks with Dread,And ...
Mara Mori brought mea pair of sockswhich she knitted herselfwith her sheepherder's hands,two socks as soft as rabbits.I slipped my ...
Would it were mine amidst the changes Through which our varied lifetime ranges, To live on Providence's bounty Down in some favoured Western ...
Wise men I hold those rakes of old Who, as we read in antique story,When lyres were struck and wine was ...
The tree was barren of leaves but you brought a new spring.Long green sprouts, verdant flowers, fresh promise.Mori, if I ...
The HumiliationThe Summary of the Poem.Theophila, or Divine Love, ascends to her Belov'd by three Degrees. By Humilitie, by Zeal, ...
I.(_On many recent novels by the conventional unconventionalists_.)Old Pantaloon, lean-witted, dour and rich, After grim years of soul-destroying greed,Weds Columbine, ...
I.Chi conosce Mercallo?E' un povero paeseTra i monti che separano--il lago di VareseDal Verbano.Fa in tutto--un seicento abitanti,Quando i bachi ...
3"Sic transit gloria mundi," "How doth the busy bee,""Dum vivimus vivamus," I stay mine enemy!Oh "veni, vidi, vici!" Oh caput ...
A MARIA.Gli astri scintillano;--l'onda riposa;E sovra il glauco--specchio del mareIl raggio tremola--d'una pietosaLuce lunare.Da lungi il circolo--delle pendiciChiude la baja--con ...
Mohay apnay hi rung mein rung lay,Tu to saaheb mera Mehboob-e-Ilaahi;Mohay apnay hi rung mein..Humri chundariya, piyaa ki pagariya,Woh to ...
Mora jobana navelara, bhayo hai gulaal,Kaisi dhar dini bikas mori maal.Mora jobana navelara.......Nijamudin aulia ko koyi samajhaaye,Jyon jyon manaon, wo ...
Aaj basant manaalay suhaagun,Aaj basant manaalay;Anjan manjan kar piya mori,Lambay neher lagaaye;Tu kya sovay neend ki maasi,So jaagay teray bhaag, ...
Bahut Kathin hai dagar panghat ki,Kaisay main bhar laaun madhva say matki?Paniya bharan ko main jo gayi thi,Daud jhapat mori ...
for Audre Lorde and Sonny Wainwright Twice in my quickly disappearing forties someone called while someone I loved and I ...
The shepherd's brow, fronting forked lightning, owns The horror and the havoc and the glory Of it. Angels fall, they ...
"Sic transit gloria mundi," "How doth the busy bee," "Dum vivimus vivamus," I stay mine enemy! Oh "veni, vidi, vici!" ...
HERE lies Johnie Pigeon; What was his religion? Whae'er desires to ken, To some other warl' Maun follow the carl, ...
Chloe, In verse by your command I write. Shortly you'll bid me ride astride, and fight: These talents better with ...
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares ...
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