Arabian Night’s Entertainments (William Ernest Henley Poems)
Once on a timeThere was a little boy: a master-mageBy virtue of a BookOf magic--O, so magical it filledHis life ...
Once on a timeThere was a little boy: a master-mageBy virtue of a BookOf magic--O, so magical it filledHis life ...
There in the bracken was the ominous spoor mark,Huge, splayed, deadly, and quiet as breath,And all around lay bloodied and ...
Although the aepyornisor roc that lived in Madagascar, andthe moa are extinct,the camel-sparrow, linkedwith them in size--the large sparrowXenophon saw ...
THE Monarchs of Europe, who prattle of peace,Shall cease, from this night, to calumniate Greece,The Moslems repent that they roused ...
(To the memory of William Hickey, Esq.)COMING out of India with ten thousand a yearExchanged for flesh and temper, a ...
The roc wings fanwise,Soaring ninety thousand liAnd rousing a raging cyclone.The blue sky on his back, he looks downTo survey ...
In June Heaven's armies chastise the corrupt and evil,Seeking to bind roc and whale with a league-long cord.Red glows the ...
The silken sail, which caught the summer breeze,Drove the light vessel through the azure seas;Upon the lofty deck, Dame Sigrid ...
'Dieu dont l'arc est d'argent, dieu de Claros, ?coute; O Sminth?e-Apollon, je p?rirai sans doute, Si tu ne sers de ...
UN CHEVRIER, UN BERGER LE CHEVRIER Berger, quel es-tu donc? qui t'agite? et quels dieux De noirs cheveux ?pars enveloppent ...
Green Spring receivethThe vacant earth;The white sun shineth;Spring wind provokethTo burst and burgeonEach sprout and flower.In those dark caves where ...
INever and never, my girl riding far and nearIn the land of the hearthstone tales, and spelled asleep,Fear or believe ...
Quand la feuille en festons a couronn? les bois, L'amoureux rossignol n'?touffe point sa voix. Il serait criminel aux yeux ...
My heart, that is Arabia, O see! That talismanic sweep of sunset coast, Which lies like ...
'Bergers, vous dont ici la ch?vre vagabonde, La brebis se tra?nant sous sa laine f?conde, Au dos de la colline ...
(AN AERIAL RETROSPECT)What was it filled my youthful dreams,In place of Greek or Latin themes,Or beauty's wild, bewildering beams? ...
The little boy pressed his face against the window-pane and looked out at the bright sunshiny morning. The cobble-stones of ...
Although the aepyornis or roc that lived in Madagascar, and the moa are extinct, the camel-sparrow, linked with them in ...
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