Ode To war (Elizabeth Bentley Poems)
STERN Power! who long in distant lands,Has thunder'd out thy dire commands;And while no lenient thought thy rage restrain'd,Hast urged ...
STERN Power! who long in distant lands,Has thunder'd out thy dire commands;And while no lenient thought thy rage restrain'd,Hast urged ...
"WHEN in the first great hour of sleep supreme I saw my Dearest fair and tranquil lie, Swift ran through ...
WITH subtlest mimicry of wave and tide,Of ocean storm, and current setting free,Here by the bridge the river deep and ...
ALL has befallen as I say, The old r?gime has passed away, And quite a new one Is being fashioned ...
How swiftly, once, on silvery feetI saw thee bound beneath the sun!Oh, savage innocence! The fleet,The wild, the sweet, the ...
In vain, when music's seraph-fire Runs kindling through the air,Making it such as gods respire, (And gods perhaps ...
NIGHT.I LIFT to Heaven my longing eyes, Knowing that yonder tranquil moon Is bright for you in Spanish skies; And ...
I thank my god for brother wind,So prayed St. Francis long agoIn words of simple, joyous praise,That fill my heart ...
DIE, half-blown rose, upon a grateful heart, Whose life is quickened by thy ebbing breath; Nay, thus to die were ...
"BEND low, O dusky Night, And give my spirit rest. Hold me to your deep breast, And put ...
Too many a Samsan lip your teeth indent:Too many a Sybil girl you lure to makeThe Great Refusal for a ...
AN IDYLL Back from the Somme two Fusiliers Limped painfully home; the elder said, S. "Robert, I've lived three thousand ...
Notus in fratres animi paterni. Hor. Carm. lib.II.2. A bless?d lot hath he, who having passed His youth and early ...
A man came slowly from the setting sun, To Emer, raddling raiment in her dun, And said, 'I am that ...
To the Memory of the Household It Describes This Poem is Dedicated by the Author "As the Spirit of Darkness ...
So all day long the noise of battle roll'd Among the mountains by the winter sea; Until King Arthur's table, ...
That story which the bold Sir Bedivere, First made and latest left of all the knights, Told, when the man ...
That story which the bold Sir Bedivere, First made and latest left of all the knights, Told, when the man ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
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