God (Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin Poems)
O Thou, who's infinite in space,Alive in ever-moving matter,Eternal in the flow of time,God faceless, with a trinity of faces!Soul ...
O Thou, who's infinite in space,Alive in ever-moving matter,Eternal in the flow of time,God faceless, with a trinity of faces!Soul ...
Perched on a dead volcanic pile,Now charted as a submerged peak,Near to a moon-washed coral isle,A hundred leagues from Mozambique,Three ...
To make a bridgeBetween poetry and proseTo make a movable bridgeBetween this year and next yearTo know the male from ...
FIVE years ago (says Story) I lov'd you,For which you call me most inconstant now;Pardon me, Madam! you mistake the ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
Thrice, and above, blest, my soul's half, art thou, In thy both last and better vow; Could'st leave the city, ...
When I was born, From all the seas of strength Fate filled a chalice, Saying, This be thy portion, child; ...
Higher far, Upward, into the pure realm, Over sun or star, Over the flickering Dæmon film, Thou must mount for ...
We do not know the time we lose -- The awful moment is And takes its fundamental place Among the ...
In a slow drawn focus the concrete blocks that prop up my view of the sky morph soft and easy ...
I Our life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence: Sleep ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
RESPONDEZ! Respondez! (The war is completed-the price is paid-the title is settled beyond recall;) Let every one answer! let those ...
1 AS I sat alone, by blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these mighty days, and of peace return'd, ...
ON the beach at night alone, As the old mother sways her to and fro, singing her husky song, As ...
1 STARTING from fish-shape Paumanok, where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother; After roaming many lands-lover ...
Before those cruel twins whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth, had hunted ...
Somewhere, suspended in facetless space, the vine is spiralling, shown in the distance, with loosened hair: the farther the eye ...
God! ask me not to record your wonders, I admit the stars and the suns And the countless worlds. But ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he a while Thought him still speaking, ...
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