Festus – XIV (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Even while a starMight twinkle twice, or calm, retiring sea,Irresolute yet to leave, his moonlit kissShimmering repeat upon the impassive ...
Even while a starMight twinkle twice, or calm, retiring sea,Irresolute yet to leave, his moonlit kissShimmering repeat upon the impassive ...
THE scene is the Southern Hemisphere;The time - oh, any time of the yearWill do as well as another; say ...
In the very beginnings of science, the parsons, who managed things then,Being handy with hammer and chisel, made gods in ...
To have known Heaven and then to walk in Hell!Is it not hell to know his face no more,Supplanted, spurned ...
Knew not the Sun, sweet Violet,The while he gleaned the snow,That thou in darkness sepulchred,Wast slumbering below?Or spun a splendor ...
AN APOSTROPHE TO THE MOON.O, silvery moon, fair mistress of the night,Thou mellow, ever vaccilating orb,How many eons of unmeasured ...
In a western city new-born from a withering fire, Fresh ...
I am waiting on the Lord For his answer to prayer In His Time; Not my own Human passions And ...
At Half past Three, a single Bird Unto a silent Sky Propounded but a single term Of cautious melody. At ...
As Parmigianino did it, the right hand Bigger than the head, thrust at the viewer And swerving easily away, as ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
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