Drake (Alfred Noyes Poems)
I England, my mother, Lift to my western sweetheart ...
I England, my mother, Lift to my western sweetheart ...
YOU said, last night, you did not think In all the world of men Was one true lover--true alike In ...
mon semblable, mon fr?re(1) Our epoch takes a voluptuous satisfaction In that perspective of the action Which pictures us inhabiting ...
- 1 -The mortal flesh must rotIn a life-forgotten spot.The soul ...
Strophe I.Ye shades, where sacred truth is sought;Groves, where immortal Sages taught;Where heav'nly visions of Plato fir'd,And Epicurus lay inspir'd!In ...
I saw beneath its native stemThe sever'd Vine-branch layed,The dews were fresh upon its cheek,The sun-beam on its head.The new-blown ...
"Behind the board fence at the banker's house The slender, tawn-gray creature starves and thirsts In agony of fear. A ...
One bright memory shines like a starIn the sky of my spirit forever;And over my pathway it flashes afarA radiance ...
Oh the slow fall of snow,Its unending blanketing swirl!Yet my mind's eye was giving shapeTo what couldn't be kept hidden,That ...
"How anxious for the praise of fame, Are those, who wish an earthly name: At nothing will they stop, To ...
In the broken light, in owl weather, Webs on the lawn where the leaves end, I took the thin moon ...
Joy is a trick in the air; pleasure is merely contemptible, the dangled Carrot the ass follows to market or ...
I am the family face; Flesh perishes, I live on, Projecting trait and trace Through time to times anon, And ...
Love is apart from all things. Desire and excitement are nothing beside it. It is not the body that finds ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
Suspense -- is Hostiler than Death -- Death -- tho'soever Broad, Is Just Death, and cannot increase -- Suspense -- ...
I. The morn when first it thunders in March, The eel in the pond gives a leap, they say: As ...
The Master stood upon the mount, and taught. He saw a fire in his disciples' eyes; 'The old law', they ...
Lucilla, wedded to Lucretius, found Her master cold; for when the morning flush Of passion and the first embrace had ...
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings, That appeared once, still wet As shining chestnuts ...
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