Tenebrae (Geoffrey Hill Poems)
He was so tired that he was scarcely able to hear a note of the songs: he felt imprisoned in ...
He was so tired that he was scarcely able to hear a note of the songs: he felt imprisoned in ...
O PEOPLE-CHOSEN! are ye notLikewise the chosen of the Lord,To do His will and speak His word?From the loud thunder-storm ...
MY old Welsh neighbor over the wayCrept slowly out in the sun of spring,Pushed from her ears the locks of ...
In one who felt as once he felt This might, perhaps, have fann'd the flame;But now his heart no more will ...
The little fires that Nature lights — The scilla's lamp, the daffodil —She quenches, when of stormy nights Her anger whips the ...
VVere thy heart soft as thou art faire,Thou wer't a wonder past compare:But frozen Love and fierce disdainBy their extremes ...
EUGENIOTOEMMA,ON HER RETURN FROM THE EAST-INDIE APRIL 15, 1781. START not, dear EMMA ...
WHEN fallen man from Paradise was driven, Forth to a world of labour, death, and care; Still, of his native ...
''Powers, erst of heaven; and, haply, yet again, As, with the years, we wiser, mightier grow, Thither, triumphant, destined to ...
I. UNDER THE TREES.There had been phantoms, pale-remembered shapesOf this and this occasion, sisterlyIn their resemblances, each effigyCrowned with the ...
How calm the spangled city spread below! How cool the night! How fair the starry skies! How sweet the dewy ...
ELLA kept anxious vigil by the bed: How strange it is to watch through creeping hours A face which was ...
Expect not (lovely Cynthia) yet from me Lines like thy fairest selfe, so ...
NOW earth's beauteous scenes o'ershading,Twilight her grey mantle flings;Now the realms of day invading,Darkness spreads his ebon wings.From the distant ...
SURE, once I knew a mighty lord,His arm was strong and steady;But little care could he accordTo look upon his ...
"THE FOG inrolling, dark and still Lies deep upon the crowded dead As flooding sea upon the sands, And quenches ...
Love is apart from all things. Desire and excitement are nothing beside it. It is not the body that finds ...
The rimer quenches his unheeded fires, The sound surceases and the sense expires. Then the domestic dog, to east and ...
Love and charity. 1 Cor. 13:2-7, 13. Let Pharisees of high esteem Their faith and zeal declare, All their religion ...
Thank Heaven! the crisis- The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last- And the fever called ...
Do you remember, O Delphic Apollo, The sunset hour by the river, when Mickey M'Grew Cried, "There's a ghost," and ...
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