Roses And Rue (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
I.A swift thought flashed to my mind that dayWhen I first saw you, regally tall'Mid a throng of pigmies--a very ...
I.A swift thought flashed to my mind that dayWhen I first saw you, regally tall'Mid a throng of pigmies--a very ...
Half awake and half dozing,Struck by a drear reality, but still lostIn an inner sea fog of Danaidean dreamsI stand ...
I might strive as well to melt to softness the soulless breast Of some fair and saintly image, carven out of ...
Upon yesterday's lotus the dew pearledAnd vanished with the sun.On a certain morning e'er the winter ceased,Lo, did the songsters ...
Some flowers are withered and some joys have died;The garden reeks with an East Indian scentFrom beds where gillyflowers stand ...
The passionate summer's dead! the sky's aglowWith roseate flushes of matured desire,The winds at eve are musical and low,As sweeping ...
AN acorn fell from an old oak tree,And lay on the frosty ground"O, what shall the fate of the acorn ...
PROUD, languid lily of the sacred Nile, 'Tis strange to see thee on our western wave,Far from those sandy shores ...
White haze glimmered on the hills, The vales were parched and dry, And glaringly the burning sun Coursed in the ...
THE fierce exulting worlds, the motes in rays, The churlish thistles, scented briers, The wind-swept bluebells on the sunny ...
The many sow, but only the chosen reap; Happy the wretched host if Day be brief, That with the cool ...
You are so serious, as ifa glacier spoke in your earor you had to walk throughthe great gate of Kievto ...
'T was Fultah Fisher's boarding-house, Where sailor-men reside, And there were men of all the ports From Mississip to Clyde, ...
Some flowers are withered and some joys have died; The garden reeks with an East Indian scent From beds where ...
It was like chucking-out time In a rough Victorian pub Cherubic Dylan was first to go Lachrymose but with a ...
A man roams the streets with a basket of freestone peaches hollering, "Peaches, peaches, yellow freestone peaches for sale." My ...
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