A Memento Mori — Or Remember Death (Rees Prichard Poems)
HOW short the date of man! how soon he's gone!To-day, alive — to-morrow, in the tomb!Strong as a giant, now ...
HOW short the date of man! how soon he's gone!To-day, alive — to-morrow, in the tomb!Strong as a giant, now ...
Therefore death to usIs nothing, nor concerns us in the least,Since nature of mind is mortal evermore.And just as in ...
Therefore death to usIs nothing, nor concerns us in the least,Since nature of mind is mortal evermore.And just as in ...
Wizened the wood is, and wan is the way through it; White as a corpse is the face of the fen;Only ...
Black fool, why winter here? These frozen skies,Worn by your wings and deafen'd by your cries,Should warn you hence, where ...
YOU ask me where love fails me?--what I hate?I cannot blame, for all, I hold, is fate;Yet there are hateful, ...
This year again there is spring, spring incredibly familiar, so why does poetry suffocate on its own breath. The tree ...
The railroader's sons strum their guitars in the shade:Their sensitive fingers pluck a sad old tune.Silver planes zoom through quiet ...
It's thoughts-and just One Heart-And Old Sunshine-about-Make frugal-Ones-Content-And two or three-for Company-Upon a Holiday-Crowded-as Sacrament-Books-when the Unit-Spare the Tenant-long eno'-A ...
When the night's coming and the last light fallsA weak child among lost shadows on the floor,It is your listening: ...
Red is the mouth of Pele, passionate Against the fires of the kindling stars: Fire to fire moves: the heavens ...
"Relinquunt Omnia Servare Rem Publicam." The old South Boston Aquarium stands in a Sahara of snow now. Its broken windows ...
I am only nineteen My whole life is changing Tonight I see her Shuttered eyes in my dreams I cannot ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
(i) introduction his home in ruins his parents gone frederick seeks to reclaim his throne to the golden mountain he ...
It's thoughts -- and just One Heart -- And Old Sunshine -- about -- Make frugal -- Ones -- Content ...
Her -- "last Poems" -- Poets -- ended -- Silver -- perished -- with her Tongue -- Not on Record ...
I. All I believed is true! I am able yet All I want, to get By a method as strange ...
I would like to bury all the hating eyes under the sand somewhere off the North Atlantic and suffocate them ...
The 27th Regiment has mutinied at Kalapore; That was the substance of a telegram, which caused great uproar, At Sattara, ...
I wonder, can the night go by; Can this shot arrow of travel fly Shaft-golden with light, sheer into the ...
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