Re-adjustment (C. S. Lewis Poem)
I thought there would be a grave beauty, a sunset splendour In being the last of one's kind: a topmost ...
I thought there would be a grave beauty, a sunset splendour In being the last of one's kind: a topmost ...
Fire lighted; on the table a meal for sleepy men; A lantern in the stable; a jingle now and then; ...
All winter the fire devoured everything -- tear-stained elegies, old letters, diaries, dead flowers. When April finally arrived, I opened ...
thoth (who became hermes who became mercury) who was both moon and wisdom to the egyptians manifested himself mainly as ...
Shrouded, under the veil darkness fell across the whole earth over the rugged cross The sky black, like sackcloth Christ ...
The earth at the beginning a true blue planet covered completely with endless seas shrouded with the waters under the ...
What was the sky like that night in the garden it would have been fitting that no light graced the ...
The light of the moon a shimmering line across the skin of the lake rising and falling, undulating toward the ...
In the lee of the schoolyard the bushes shrouded still in the shadows of early dawn lavender purple lilacs, the ...
The simple table, set, waiting natural cloth smoothed over the surface A loaf, a cup shrouded simple white linen draped ...
The holy week, the steps of the Christ in darkening shadows, leading inexorably foreboding, portending, the suffering the cross, the ...
Your candle, lit, glowing casting light against the cup filled with the wine, Your blood the shrouded bread symbol of ...
Driving in the fall 'morn, light filtering into the clearing wood; I spied a wall awakening from its slumber, no ...
Surrounded by prickers, thorns tugging on my coat, my jeans lowering myself to the dark small fruit gathering in, berry ...
'O WHICH is the last rose?' A blossom of no name. At midnight the snow came; At daybreak a vast ...
'A letter from my love to-day! Oh, unexpected, dear appeal!' She struck a happy tear away, And broke the crimson ...
Title divine -- is mine! The Wife -- without the Sign! Acute Degree -- conferred on me -- Empress of ...
As a child I played in the same frosty fields barefoot as my no lesser loved classmates, whom we challenged ...
Where were you Shirley of the Sanguine Lake? Where did you disappear? The echoes of your empty house Were almost ...
At break of day we rested, the contest of our wills declined to wrest the peace away and where the ...
Behold, from the land of the farther suns I returned. And I was in a reptile-swarming place, Peopled, otherwise, with ...
At the end of a long-walled garden in a red provincial town, A brick path led to a mulberry- scanty ...
Tenderly, day that I have loved, I close your eyes, And smooth your quiet brow, and fold your thin dead ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
To bear a weight that cannot be borne, Sisyphus, even you aren't that strong, Although your heart cannot be torn ...
Ah Sun-flower! weary of time. Who countest the steps of the Sun; Seeking after that sweet golden clime Where the ...
By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
To B. T. Dead-tired, dog-tired, as the vivid day Fails and slackens and fades away.-- The sky that was so ...
Ah, my darling, when over the purple horizon shall loom The shrouded mother of a new idea, men hide their ...
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