Shipwreck (Mary Weston Fordham Poems)
Night and a starless sky,Ship on wild billows tost,With tattered sails and opening seams,And deck bestrewn with falling beams,Swift plunging ...
Night and a starless sky,Ship on wild billows tost,With tattered sails and opening seams,And deck bestrewn with falling beams,Swift plunging ...
GRAY gulls that wheeled and dipped and roseWhere tossing crests like Alpine snowsWould shimmer and entice;A stormy petrel, Judas soul,Dark ...
I love thee, oh! I love thee, As the sweet bee loves the flower,As the swallow loves the summer, As the humming ...
On this day of sky-blue bearsRunning across quiet eyelashes,I divine beyond the blue watersIn the cup of my eyes an ...
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,That like a haze about your silence clings,Moulding your void until we seem to ...
DESCRIBE the Borough--though our idle tribeMay love description, can we so describe,That you shall fairly streets and buildings trace,And all ...
Mother of man's time-travelling generations, Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart,God above all Gods worshipped of all ...
AN acorn fell from an old oak tree,And lay on the frosty ground"O, what shall the fate of the acorn ...
I took the trail to the wooded canyon, The trail from the sea: For I heard a calling ...
Heavy hangs the rain-dropFrom the burdened spray;Heavy broods the damp mistOn uplands far away.Heavy looms the dull sky,Heavy rolls the ...
I walk not by the sounding sea;I dwell full many leagues from shoreAnd still an echo drifts to meOf the ...
A THOUSAND miles from land are we, Tossing about on the roaring sea; From billow to bounding billow cast, Like ...
When at evening smothered lightnings Burn the clouds with fretted fires; When the stars forget to glisten, ...
I did love thee, Lily Lee,As the petrel loves the sea,As the wild bee loves the thyme,As the poet loves ...
The stone falls, the bird flies, the arrow goes home,But we have no motion, we scatter like foam. O, give ...
(_To a Petrel_) All day long in the spindrift swinging, Bird of the sea! bird of the sea! How I ...
I In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, ...
Ah! why, because the dazzling sun Restored our Earth to joy, Have you departed, every one, And left a desert ...
Mother of man's time-travelling generations, Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart, God above all Gods worshipped of all ...
O tower of light, sad beauty that magnified necklaces and statues in the sea, calcareous eye, insignia of the vast ...
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