Miserimus (Adah Isaacs Menken Poems)
Sounding through the silent dimnessWhere I faint and weary lay,Spake a poet: 'I will lead theeTo the land of song ...
Sounding through the silent dimnessWhere I faint and weary lay,Spake a poet: 'I will lead theeTo the land of song ...
While my hair was still cut straight across my foreheadI played about the front gate, pulling flowers.You came by on ...
LOUD wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains, Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea, Pour forth thy vials ...
A little boy with crumbs of breadMany a hungry sparrow fed.It was a child of little sense,Who this kind bounty ...
From this windy bridge at rest,In some former curious hour,We have watched the city's hue,All along the orange west,Cupola and ...
The Isle of Imbros, set in turquoise blue,Lies to the westward; on the eastern sideThe purple hills of Asia fade ...
"The level field of gray-green buffalo grassStill narrows as the sweating bays plod on,And that black ribbon at the ploughtail ...
STILL shines our August day, as calm, as brightAs when, long years ago, we sailied awayDown the blue Narrows and ...
Through these the town of Rubens shall arise, Its stone arms clasping the cathedral, where His dead Christ sends a ...
Make bright the arrowsGather the shields:Conquest narrowsThe peaceful fields. Stock well the quiverWith arrows bright:The bowman fearedNeed never fight. Make ...
Beyond the narrows of the Inner Hebrides We sailed the cold angry sea toward Barra, where Heaval mountain Lifts like ...
June 22, 1611 THE SHALLOP ON HUDSON BAY One sail in sight upon the lonely sea And only one, God ...
Then call me traitor if you must, Shout reason and default! Say I betray a sacred trust Aching beyond this ...
In a cool curving world he lies And ripples with dark ecstasies. The kind luxurious lapse and steal Shapes all ...
And where, friend Quo, lay you hiding across malignant half my years or so? One evil faery it was workt ...
As evening falls, The walls grow luminous and warm, the walls Tremble and glow with the lives within them moving, ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
The Muse is stern unto her favoured sons, Giving to some the keys of all the joy Of the green ...
Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In ...
After Li Po While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played at the front gate, pulling ...
Make bright the arrows Gather the shields: Conquest narrows The peaceful fields. Stock well the quiver With arrows bright: The ...
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