A Baghdad Lover (Charles Hanson Towne Poems)
(Being Certain Fragments from Scheherazade's Songs in "The Thousand and One Nights")O Queen of Beauty, who hast conquered kings,O woman ...
(Being Certain Fragments from Scheherazade's Songs in "The Thousand and One Nights")O Queen of Beauty, who hast conquered kings,O woman ...
"THE YOUNG LOVERSI SAW them kissing in the shade and knew the sum of all my lore: God gave them ...
Do you remember once, in Paris of glad faces, The night we wandered off under the third moon's rays And, ...
LAST night I saw the Pleiades again, Faint as a drift of steam From some tall chimney-stack; ...
PERCHANCE the dying gods of Earth Are destined to another birth, And worn-out creeds regain their worth In the kindly ...
STILL earth turns and pulses stir, And each day hath its deed; But if I be dead to her, What ...
Thou Pleiad of the lyric worldWhere Pasta, Garcia shone,Come back with thy sweet voice again,And gem the starry zone.Though faded, ...
How oft against the sunset sky or moonI watched that moving zigzag of spread wingsIn unforgotten Autumns gone too soon,In ...
By day you cannot see the sky For it is up so very high. You look and look, but it's ...
God of the golden bow, And of the golden lyre, And of the golden hair, And of the golden fire, ...
All this was written on the next day's list. On which the busyness unfurled its cursive roots, pale but effective, ...
Tail turned to red sunset on a juniper crown a lone magpie cawks. Mad at Oryoki in the shrine-room -- ...
From where I lingered in a lull in march outside the sugar-house one night for choice, I called the fireman ...
To Charles A. Young, Astronomer "Two things," the wise man said, "fill me with awe: The starry heavens and the ...
Marie, Incarnate Virtue, Soule and Skin Both pure, whom Death not Life convincd of Sin, Had Daughters like seven Pleiades; ...
Do you remember once, in Paris of glad faces, The night we wandered off under the third moon's rays And, ...
There is a power whose inspiration fills Nature's fair fabric, sun- and star-inwrought, Like airy dew ere any drop distils, ...
BOWED by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages ...
So sweet the hour, so calm the time, I feel it more than half a crime, When Nature sleeps and ...
It is a year dear one, since you afar Went out beyond my yearning mortal sight A wondrous year! perchance ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
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