Her Portrait (Francis Thompson Poems)
Oh, but the heavenly grammar did I holdOf that high speech which angels' tongues turn gold!So should her deathless beauty ...
Oh, but the heavenly grammar did I holdOf that high speech which angels' tongues turn gold!So should her deathless beauty ...
It knocks me can in, this ere game uv life, A bloke gets born, grows up, looks round fer ...
There's been fierce argument of late In my vicinitee,Between the Commonwealth and State, For I fell out with me.I am ...
In order to perfect all readers the statements should he carved on rock walls, on cave walls, and on the ...
IT is not the rose, though the rose is red, And as full of love as a flower can be, ...
She's the jauntiest of creatures, she's the daintiest of misses,With her pretty patent leathers or her alligator ties,With her eyes ...
Ere the morn the East has crimsoned, When the stars are twinkling there,(As they did in Watts's Hymns, and Made ...
Thought was born blind, but Thought knows what is seeing.Its careful touch, deciphering forms from shapes,Still suggests form as aught ...
Translated From the Chinese of J.S. Ling (1901).The young lady shows like a thing of lightIn the shadowy deeps of ...
CFor life and death to me are so akin, So aptly one suggests the other's being; So quickly treads behind ...
We are to boast in our suffering, or so Paul said, so long ago boast for the presence of the ...
The bear puts both arms around the tree above her And draws it down as if it were a lover ...
Not, exactly, green: closer to bronze preserved in kind brine, something retrieved from a Greco-Roman wreck, patinated and oddly muscular. ...
The Love a Life can show Below Is but a filament, I know, Of that diviner thing That faints upon ...
By my Window have I for Scenery Just a Sea -- with a Stem -- If the Bird and the ...
Our Indonesian friends again exhibit strains of gross hypocrisy, it's a virus that abounds in the islands of a thousand ...
At dawn I dreamed of wispy clouds, I had the time to wield and watched the regimented lines of cirrus ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
As when the old moon lighted by the tender And radiant crescent of the new is seen, And for a ...
The stranger came from Narromine and made his little joke-- "They say we folks in Narromine are narrow-minded folk. But ...
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