The Towers of Time (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
Under what withering leprous light The very grass as hair is grey, Grass in the cracks of the paven courts ...
Under what withering leprous light The very grass as hair is grey, Grass in the cracks of the paven courts ...
The Devil is a gentleman and askes you down to stay At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far ...
WE saw Thee in Thy balmy nest, Young dawn of our eternal day; We saw Thine eyes break from the ...
CHORUS Come we shepherds whose blest sight Hath met love's noon in nature's night; Come lift we up our loftier ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
I am that hawk of gold Proud in adamantine poise On the pillars of torqoise, See,beyond ...
How many million galaxies there are Who knows? and each has countless stars in it, And each rolls through eternities ...
When the chill of earth black-breasted is uplifted at the glance Of the red sun million-crested, and the forest blossoms ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
I am that hawk of gold Proud in adamantine poise On the pillars of torqoise, See,beyond ...
How many million galaxies there are Who knows? and each has countless stars in it, And each rolls through eternities ...
When the chill of earth black-breasted is uplifted at the glance Of the red sun million-crested, and the forest blossoms ...
'Tis true, Idoloclastes Satyrane ! (So call him, for so mingling blame with praise, And smiles with anxious looks, his ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
In the zunsheen of our zummers Wi' the hay time now a-come, How busy wer we out a-vield Wi' vew ...
After the cloud embankments, the lamentation of wind and the starry descent into time, we came to the flashing waters ...
Guns! far and near Quick, sudden, angry, They startle the still street, Upturned faces appear, Doors open on darkness, There ...
In the zunsheen of our zummers Wi' the hay time now a-come, How busy wer we out a-vield Wi' vew ...
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea. Flesh of her flesh ...
Come to the banquet -- triumph in your songs! Strike up the chords -- and sing of Victory! The oppressed ...
Oppressed with sin and woe, A burdened heart I bear, Opposed by many a mighty foe: But I will not ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye come, And bright in the fruitful valleys the streams, wherefrom Ye learn your ...
In your hidden memories There are fatal tidings of doom... A curse on sacred traditions, A desecration of happiness; And ...
'Twas at that hour of beauty when the setting sun squandereth his cloudy bed with rosy hues, to flood his ...
1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees ...
She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and ...
Throughout the course of the generations men constructed the night. At first she was blindness; thorns raking bare feet, fear ...
MADONNA, mistress, I would build for thee An altar deep in the sad soul of me; And in the darkest ...
I. The morn when first it thunders in March, The eel in the pond gives a leap, they say: As ...
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