The Everlasting Return (Lola Ridge Poems)
It is dark… so dark, I remember the sun on Chios…It is still… so still, I hear the beat of ...
It is dark… so dark, I remember the sun on Chios…It is still… so still, I hear the beat of ...
NOW, for the faith that is in ye,Polander, Sclav, and Kelt!Prove to the world what the lips have hurledThe hearts ...
The wild oxalis Among the valleys Lifts up its chalice Of pink and pearl; And, balsam-breathing, From out their sheathing, The myriad wreathing Green leaves uncurl. The whole ...
Exquisite mosses, so lovely and green,Covering the rocks with emerald sheen;Hiding the scars which convulsions have made;Blessing the mound where ...
Washed in the blood of the brave and the blooming,Snatched from the altars of insolent foes,Burning with star-fires, but never ...
I used to thinkThe mind essential in the body, evenAs stood the body essential in the mind:Two inseparable things, by ...
"Now, scarce three paces measured from the mound,We stumbled on a stationary voice,And 'Stand, who goes?' 'Two from the palace' ...
An Incident in One Act.PERSONS. THE KING, THE QUEEN, EARL ATHULF, THE MINSTREL.Heralds, Pages, Men-at-Arms, Sentries. TIME: THE PAST.SCENE:Night in ...
Yet once more, Harp of prophecy, once moreFondly I come soliciting thine aid;By whose celestial minstrelsy inspiredThe saintly Enoch walk'd ...
A Historical Tragedy in Five Acts.This play is dedicated, in profound veneration and respect, to thememory of George Eliot, the ...
1660At last the long darkness of anarchy lifts, and the dawn o'er the grayIn rosy pulsation floods; the tremulous amber ...
Down by the railroad in a green valley By dancing water, there he stayed awhile Singing, and three men with ...
OH cruel England! standing coldly by, While groans of human creatures rend the sky. The mother's darling and the sister's ...
The root is hard to looseFrom hold of earth by mortals; but God's powerCan all things do. 'Tis black, but ...
I know her not by fallen leaves Or resting heaps of hay; Or by the sheathing ...
Because on the branch that is tapping my paneA sun-wakened leaf-bud, uncurled,Is bursting its rusty brown sheathing in twain,I know ...
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
I Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to ...
Now, scarce three paces measured from the mound, We stumbled on a stationary voice, And 'Stand, who goes?' 'Two from ...
HER mouth is fragrant as a vine, A vine with birds in all its boughs; Serpent and scarab for a ...
I took a contract to bury the body of blasphemous Bill MacKie, Whenever, wherever or whatsoever the manner of death ...
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