Seven Days Leave (Kendrick Smithyman Poems)
Like flies about their ceiling aircraft haulover the cloudcap, your far sight outclimb. Thin air, compacted, trails them white whose belling engines ...
Like flies about their ceiling aircraft haulover the cloudcap, your far sight outclimb. Thin air, compacted, trails them white whose belling engines ...
There's a habit I have nurtured, From the sentimental timeWhen my life was like a story, And my heart a happy rhyme,--Of ...
These fine days have been my ruin.On this kind of day I resignedMy job in "Pious Foundations"On this kind of ...
THE GENTLEMAN FARMER.Gwyn was a farmer, whom the farmers all,Who dwelt around, "the Gentleman" would call;Whether in pure humility or ...
Thou, run to the dry on this wayside bank,Too plainly of all the propellers bereft!Quenched youth, and is that thy ...
I Spring found us early that eventful year, Seeming to know in her clairvoyant way The bitterness ...
MY LIFE is bitter with thy love; thine eyesBlind me, thy tresses burn me, thy sharp sighsDivide my flesh and ...
IRed SlippersRed slippers in a shop-window, and outside in the street, flaws of grey,windy sleet!Behind the polished glass, the slippers ...
Jist 'ere it gripped me, on a sudden, like a red-'ot knife.I wus diggin' in the garden, talkin' pleasant to ...
DOST long for sunrise?--quench the vain desire, And bar thy window 'gainst the eastern fire. Thy fathers dwelt content in ...
Such, and so differing is the characterOf the plebeian and philosopher.Now the proficient, he that labours onTowards perfection, by these ...
I.Goodnight and goodbye to the life whose signs denote usAs mourners clothed with regret for the life gone by;To the ...
Why do you subdue yourself in golds and purples? Why do you dim yourself with folded silks? Do you not ...
Streaks of green and yellow iridescence, Silver shiftings, Rings veering out of rings, Silver -- gold -- Grey-green opaqueness sliding ...
Give'' and ``It-shall-be-given-unto-you.'' I. Grand rough old Martin Luther Bloomed fables---flowers on furze, The better the uncouther: Do roses stick ...
I. Goodnight and goodbye to the life whose signs denote us As mourners clothed with regret for the life gone ...
The monotone of the rain is beautiful, And the sudden rise and slow relapse Of the long multitudinous rain. The ...
LITTLE one, you have been buzzing in the books, Flittering in the newspapers and drinking beer with lawyers And amid ...
It happens. Will it go on? ---- My mind a rock, No fingers to grip, no tongue, My god the ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
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