Patmos (Friedrich Holderlin Poems)
The god Is near, and hard to grasp. But where there is danger, A rescuing element grows as well. Eagles ...
The god Is near, and hard to grasp. But where there is danger, A rescuing element grows as well. Eagles ...
SEE his black nose snubbed back, pressed over like a whale's blow-holes,As if his nostrils were going to curve ...
Soft slept the beautiful autumnIn the heart, on the face of the Lough-Its heart, whose pulses were hush'd,Till you knew ...
Forth from the city in our cars we drove, Until we halted at the pasture ground. The general came, ...
Great cities rise and have their fall; the brassThat held their glories moulders in its turn.Hard granite rots like an ...
That bright-eyed and brown-skinned youth,The fine twenty-year body that should go naked,That, brow circled with copper, under the moon,An unknown ...
This is the song of the many Who seldom are mentioned in praise, The glorious millions of toilers Who splendidly ...
YOU don't weigh more than thirty pounds,Your legs are little, plump and fat, And yet you patter on your rounds ...
Mothers dream such splendid dreams when their little babies smile, Dreams of wondrous deeds they'll do in the happy after- ...
The star upon their service flag has changed to gleaming gold;It speaks no more of hope and life, as once ...
Africa my AfricaAfrica of pround warriors in ancestral savannahsAfrica of whom my grandmlother singsOn the banks of the distant riverI ...
THERE are some that go for love of a fight And some for love of a land,And some for ...
The secrets of the mind convene splendidly, Though the mind is meek. To be aware inwardly of brain and beauty ...
On the first night of the full moon, the primeval sack of ocean broke, & I gave birth to you ...
Even from afar came shouts of recognition joyful voices rang across the years disdained and faces of our childhood unforgot ...
I said I splendidly loved you; it's not true. Such long swift tides stir not a land-locked sea. On gods ...
Cass was the youngest and most beautiful of 5 sisters. Cass was the most beautiful girl in town. 1/2 Indian ...
I Immense, august, like some Titanic bloom, The mighty choir unfolds its lithic core, Petalled with panes of azure, gules ...
I WAS asking for something specific and perfect for my city, Whereupon, lo! upsprang the aboriginal name! Now I see ...
A jade cup was broken because old age came too soon to give fulfilment to hopes; after drinking three cups ...
'Twas in the year of 1897, and on the 22nd of June, Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee in London caused a ...
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