A Litany (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
FIRST ANTIPHONE.ALL the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over thee;One night shall be as seven ...
FIRST ANTIPHONE.ALL the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over thee;One night shall be as seven ...
Before the seas and mountains were brought forth, I reigned. I hung the universe in space,I capped earth's ...
IMyselvesThe grieversGrieveAmong the street burned to tireless deathA child of a few hoursWith its kneading mouthCharred on the black breast ...
O earth, sufficing all our needs, O you With room for body and for spirit too, How patient while your children vex their souls Devising alien heavens beyond your blue! Dear dwelling of the immortal and unseen, How obstinate in my blindness have I been, Not comprehending what your tender calls, Veiled promises and reassurance, mean. Not far and cold the way that they have gone Who through your sundering darkness have withdrawn; Almost within our hand-reach they remain Who pass beyond the sequence of the dawn. Not far and strange the Heaven, but very near, Your children's hearts unknowingly hold dear. At times we almost catch the door swung wide. An unforgotten voice almost we hear. I am the heir of Heaven — and you are just. You, you alone I know — and you I trust. I have sought God beyond His farthest star — But here I find Him, in your quickening dust.(Charles G. D. Roberts)
UNDER the flaming wings of cherubim I moved toward that high altar. O, the hour! And the light waxed ...
When the thunder of the battle rolls no more, And the last bugles blow o'er the plain,They'll be many ...
We sat entwined an hour or two together(how long I knew not) underneath pine-treesthat rustled ever in the soft spring ...
O happiness, I know not what far seas, Blue hills and deep, thy sunny realms surround, That thus in Music's ...
Sundering the bushes like a snare,More violet than Margarita's tight-pressed lips,More passionate than Margarita's white-eyed stare,The nightingale glowed, royally throbbed ...
Two separate divided silences,Which, brought together, would find loving voice;Two glances which together would rejoiceIn love, now lost like stars ...
Sap stirs near me, roots stretch and seize, Sundering stones.And rivers waken, start in monotones Their later tunes.Oaks bend their ...
Throughout the echoing chambers of my brain I hear your words in mournful cadence toll Like some slow passing-bell which ...
There was a strife 'twixt man and maid-- Oh, that was at the birth of time! But what befell 'twixt ...
I towered far, and lo! I stood within The presence of the Lord Most High, Sent thither by the sons ...
And the Piper dreams as he pipes up in his mind colours in choral horizons distant, of courtliness dimmed in ...
She ONLY to be twin elements of joy In this extravagance of Being, Love, Were our divided natures shaped in ...
The leaves were long, the grass was green, The hemlock-umbels tall and fair, And in the glade a light was ...
O happiness, I know not what far seas, Blue hills and deep, thy sunny realms surround, That thus in Music's ...
PART I It is an hour before the hour of dawn. Set in mine hand my staff and leave me ...
I Because the night was falling warm and still Upon a golden day at April's end, I thought; I will ...
A LONE gray bird, Dim-dipping, far-flying, Alone in the shadows and grandeurs and tumults Of night and the sea And ...
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