John Marston: XII (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
THE BITTERNESS of death and bitterer scorn Breathes from the broad-leafed aloe-plant whence thou Wast fain to gather ...
THE BITTERNESS of death and bitterer scorn Breathes from the broad-leafed aloe-plant whence thou Wast fain to gather ...
There is no sadness here. Oh, that my heartWere calm and peaceful as these dreamy groves!That all my hopes and ...
To give this book a dedication The desert sickened, And lions roared, and dawns of tigers Took hold of Kipling. ...
In Mystic Argot often Confounded with FarragoIf aught that stumbles in my speech Or stutters in my pen,Or, claiming ...
WHEN the vine again is blowing, Then the wine moves in the cask; When the rose again is glowing, Wherefore ...
[First published in Schiller's Horen, in connection with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great ...
We all are tempted in this life, a coarseness, a selfishness pervades the age the world says all is acceptable, ...
SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind; A triple engine prove in love we find; By these the strongest fortresses ...
What mystery pervades a well! That water lives so far -- A neighbor from another world Residing in a jar ...
I'm buried now; I've done with life; I've done with hate, revenge and strife; I've done with joy, and hope ...
NO coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven's glories shine, And faith shines ...
No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven's glories shine, And faith shines ...
Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet, Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet! I feel a nameless ...
Light flows our war of mocking words, and yet, Behold, with tears mine eyes are wet! I feel a nameless ...
To cultivate in ev'ry noble mind Habitual grace, and sentiments refin'd, Thus while you strive to mend the human heart, ...
1 AFOOT and light-hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path ...
1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with ...
There is a looker-on who sits behind my eyes. I seems he has seen things in ages and worlds beyond ...
By love are blest the gods on high, Frail man becomes a deity When love to him is given; 'Tis ...
Yet one Song more! one high and solemn strain Ere PAEAN! on thy temple's ruined wall I hang the silent ...
America, from a grain of maize you grew to crown with spacious lands the ocean foam. A grain of maize ...
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