Convict Once – Part Second. (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
I.1EVEN as water to him who thirsts wayfaring, dust-dry and burning,After sore heat and long stumbling in courses with never ...
I.1EVEN as water to him who thirsts wayfaring, dust-dry and burning,After sore heat and long stumbling in courses with never ...
The goodman sat beside his doorOne sultry afternoon,With his young wife singing at his sideAn old and goodly tune.A glimmer ...
I walk'd in the morn, when the beautiful showerHad left its tears on many a flower,When many a pearly diademWas ...
What most men hunger for yet none achievesSave him who greatly cares not to be great,Who knows the loom of ...
Seven days accomplished,--unto Pharaoh's court The sons of Amram went; by Voice Divine Commanded; and, in presence of the king, ...
Part 02: His Futile Preoccupations - 01I am a house, says Senlin, locked and darkened, Sealed from the sun with ...
DEMETER PERSEPHONE HECATE HERMES In the vale of Elusis DEMETERHail, goddess, from the midmost caverned vale Of Samothracia, where with ...
And is not love in vain, Torture enough without a living tomb? ...
Tell me no more, no moreOf my soul's lofty gifts! Are they not vainTo quench its haunting thirst for happiness?Have ...
Heavy hangs the rain-dropFrom the burdened spray;Heavy broods the damp mistOn uplands far away.Heavy looms the dull sky,Heavy rolls the ...
Yesternight -- how long it seems! --Met I in the land of dreams,One that loved me long ago --Better it ...
They sing their dearest songs -- He, she, all of them -- yea, Treble and tenor and bass, And one ...
from Senlin: A Biography It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves, remote ...
We burrowed night and day with tools of lead, Heaped the bank up and cast it in a ring And ...
I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the ...
This life is all chequer'd with pleasures and woes, That chase one another like waves of the deep -- Each ...
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