Consciousness Of Our Return (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Night's grating of steel on stone and splash of water crashing from the buckets brings back that moment in a ...
Night's grating of steel on stone and splash of water crashing from the buckets brings back that moment in a ...
It rained throughout the night, a truly welcome sound that eases sleep although we barely slept - we were distressed ...
WOE is me to tell it thee, Winter winds in Arcady! Scattered is thy flock and fled From the glades ...
I The rutted roads are all like iron; skies Are keen and brilliant; only the oak-leaves cling In the bare ...
They had not seen, for ages, such beautiful gifts in Delphi as these that had been sent by the two ...
Under what withering leprous light The very grass as hair is grey, Grass in the cracks of the paven courts ...
To the tune "As in a Dream" I have long remembered the pavilion on the stream the falling sun so ...
When first the fiery-mantled sun His heavenly race begun to run; Round the earth and ocean blue, His children four ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
(Judges, vi.25) Jesus! whose blood so freely stream'd To satisfy the law's demand; By Thee from guilt and wrath redeem'd, ...
THE PROLOGUE. THE Cook of London, while the Reeve thus spake, For joy he laugh'd and clapp'd him on the ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
The Landing "Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried, As he landed his crew with care; Supporting each ...
Why is it that Poetry has never yet been subjected to that process of Dilution which has proved so advantageous ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
The landscape sleeps in mist from morn till noon; And, if the sun looks through, 'tis with a face Beamless ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
The three men coming down the winter hill In brown, with tall poles and a pack of hounds At heel, ...
The only thing I miss about Los Angeles is the Hollywood Freeway at midnight, windows down and radio blaring bearing ...
I've known the pleasures of being fired at least eleven times- most notably by Larry who found my snood unsuitable, ...
'Tis strange to think, there was a time When mirth was not an empty name, When laughter really cheered the ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
In autumn moonlight, when the white air wan Is fragrant in the wake of summer hence, 'Tis sweet to sit ...
IF thou be in a lonely place, If one hour's calm be thine, As Evening bends her placid face O'er ...
Lough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean's wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
Often rebuked, yet always back returning To those first feelings that were born with me, And leaving busy chase of ...
She dried her tears and they did smile To see her cheeks' returning glow How little dreaming all the while ...
Indeed I live in the dark ages! A guileless word is an absurdity. A smooth forehead betokens A hard heart. ...
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