Wishes (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
Looking back,Wander we through life's long track,Looking back,Where a parted sun's soft rayLingers yet across the way.Gazing home,As the slow ...
Looking back,Wander we through life's long track,Looking back,Where a parted sun's soft rayLingers yet across the way.Gazing home,As the slow ...
Oh I'll be chewing salted horse and biting flinty bread,And dancing with the stars to watch, upon the fo'c's'le head,Hearkening ...
Mother of man's time-travelling generations, Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart,God above all Gods worshipped of all ...
A faint sea without wind or sun;A sky like flameless vapour dun; A valley like an unsealed graveThat no ...
A Threnody for Robert Louis StevensonCOLD, the dull cold! What ails the sun,And takes the heart out of the day?What ...
Clasp hands across the world, Across the dim sea-line, Where with bright flags unfurled Our navies breast the brine; Be ...
O life! O, vailed destiny!She cried—"within thy hidden handsWhat recompense is waiting meBeyond these naked wintry sands?For lo! The ancient ...
ON the long slow heave of a lazy sea,To the flap of an idle sail,The Nancy's Pride went out on ...
HE had said, "Thank God for my body obscene,For the lust that oppresses life, choking me;Hereby shall I prove my ...
THE upland shepherd, as reclined he liesOn the soft turf that clothes the mountain brow,Marks the bright sea-line mingling with ...
O Lord of all compassionate control,O Love! let this my lady's picture glowUnder my hand to praise her name, and ...
Those moments, tasted once and never done, Of long surf breaking in the mid-day sun. A far-off blow-hole booming like ...
Then the golden hour Will tick its last And the flame will go down in the flower. A briefer length ...
O pale green sea, With long, pale, purple clouds above - What lies in me like weight of love ? ...
Send but a song oversea for us, Heart of their hearts who are free, Heart of their singer, to be ...
I Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star Take heart in heaven from eastward, while the west, Fulfilled of watery ...
The trumpets of the four winds of the world From the ends of the earth blow battle; the night heaves, ...
Mother of man's time-travelling generations, Breath of his nostrils, heartblood of his heart, God above all Gods worshipped of all ...
Grey dawn on the sand-hills -- the night wind has drifted All night from the rollers a scent of the ...
ALL day they loitered by the resting ships, Telling their beauties over, taking stock; At night the verdict left my ...
It was the silver, heart-enveloping view Of the mysterious sea-line far away, Seen only on a gleaming gold-white day, That ...
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