Since Shade Relents (Paul Verlaine Poems)
Since shade relents, since 'tis indeed the day, Since hope I long had deemed forever flown,Wings back to me that call ...
Since shade relents, since 'tis indeed the day, Since hope I long had deemed forever flown,Wings back to me that call ...
THE hardest task the Christian heart can know,Is to relinquish all it loves below.Where creature comforts, tender ties, conspireTo rule ...
'Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more;I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you;For morn is ...
SAY, wretched wanderer, whom the world insnares,Do all thy joys compensate half thy cares?Where is the balm to ease the ...
From the German of Gellert.Erinnre dich, mein Geist, erfreutDes hohen Tags der Herrlichkeit; &c.AWAKE, my soul, and hail the dayOn ...
Ah! how, when assur'd of her faith and love, Could I forfeit the prize, and with happiness part? How could I inconstant ...
Whatsoever thou hast, relinquish it for the sake of God; for charity is the greater marvel when it comes from ...
But when Endymion, wandering alone,With youth and love of loveliness forlorn,Being greatly sorrowful with beauty, cameUpon the silence of a ...
MOODS OF GINGER MICKThis book was dedicated to "THE BOYS WHO TOOK THE ...
When late Protectorship was Canon-Proof,And _Cap-a-pe_ had seiz'd on _Whitehall_-Roof,And next, on _Israelites_ durst look so big,That _Tory-like_, it lov'd ...
A QUIET, simple man was Abel Keene,He meant no harm, nor did he often mean;He kept a school of loud ...
PLATE IRixa super meroThey sat by their wine in the tavern that night,But not in good fellowship true:The Rhenish was ...
Before me now a little picture lies— A little shadow of a childish face, Childishly sweet, ...
Around our flag we are united,With but one will and one desire,A sacred oath are now proclaimingFor our salvation to ...
THE patient craftsman of the East who madeHis undulant dragons of the veined jade,And wound their sinuous volutes round the ...
Watching in horror the madman on the balcony rambling on incessantly of who would be executed who would be killed ...
The blood of the people to be spilt by the tyrant raining down from heaven onto the earth Unwilling to ...
Christ, choosing to submit to relinquish his heavenly throne coming to earth, living as a servant alone Giving up his ...
It seldom snowed in Camp they said, on the mountains, yes, and in the Styx, aka zone six. That's where ...
RecitativoWHEN lyart leaves bestrow the yird, Or wavering like the bauckie-bird, Bedim cauld Boreas' blast; When hailstanes drive wi' bitter ...
North Country, filled with gesturing wood, With trees that fence, like archers' volleys, The flanks of hidden valleys Where nothing's ...
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