Festus – XIV (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Even while a starMight twinkle twice, or calm, retiring sea,Irresolute yet to leave, his moonlit kissShimmering repeat upon the impassive ...
Even while a starMight twinkle twice, or calm, retiring sea,Irresolute yet to leave, his moonlit kissShimmering repeat upon the impassive ...
The great farm house of Malcolm Graem stoodSquare shoulder'd and peak roof'd upon a hill,With many windows looking everywhere;So that ...
The hot wax drips from the flares On the scrawled pink forms that litter The bench where he sits; the glitterOf stars ...
O black and unknown bards of long ago,How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?How, in your darkness, did ...
Over the rocks she trails her locks,Her mossy locks that drip, drip, drip:Her sparkling eyes smile at the skiesIn friendship-wise ...
There's nothing like a ship at sea with all her sails full-spreadAnd the ocean thundering backward 'neath her mounting figureheadAnd ...
Day passeth day in sunshine or shadow, Night unto night each cycle is told;Sun, moon and stars in whirling and glamour, All ...
A few more years, - and they will drag my bones,And let them in a charnel-house be shed,After my melodies ...
Now, when the moon slid under the cloudAnd the cold clear dark of starlight fell,He heard in his blood the ...
IEnter these enchanted woods,You who dare.Nothing harms beneath the leavesMore than waves a swimmer cleaves.Toss your heart up with the ...
What voice is that which o'er the ocean,Through what is lit and what obscure no less,Night's coruscations and its darknesses,Still ...
(Father Perry, S.J.)Starry amorist, starward gone,Thou art--what thou didst gaze upon!Passed through thy golden garden's bars,Thou seest the Gardener of ...
Now, when the moon slid under the cloud And the cold clear dark of starlight fell, He heard in his ...
When I was daft (as urchins are), And full if fairy lore, I aimed an arrow at a star And ...
WE turned back mad from the mystic mountains, All foamed with red and with elfin gold: Up from the heart ...
SEE where the light streams over Connla's fountain Starward aspire! The sacred sign upon the holy mountain Shines in white ...
I With you I shall ever be; Over land and sea My thoughts will companion you; With yours shall my ...
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