The Shadow (John Oxenham Poems)
Shapeless and grim,A Shadow dimO'erhung the ways,And darkened all my days.And all who saw,With bated breath,Said, "It is Death!"And I, ...
Shapeless and grim,A Shadow dimO'erhung the ways,And darkened all my days.And all who saw,With bated breath,Said, "It is Death!"And I, ...
There is a kingdom in a rugged land;It lies between a mountain and a sea;A torrent roaring down in headlong ...
Dear father, from my cradle I acknowledgeAll your wise kindness, tender care, and love, Through days of kindergarten, school, and ...
We have heard it. Oft we heard it long before we came of age.In whatever fields we practise, art whatever ...
Yes, yes! I love thee, Guilo; thee alone.Why dost thou sigh, and wear that face of sorrow?The sunshine is to-day's, ...
November: 1674Cloked in gray threadbare poverty, and blind,Age-weak, and desolate, and beloved of God;High-heartedness to long repulse resign'd,Yet bating not ...
It's an easy world to live in if you choose to make it so; You never need to suffer, save ...
Pledged to the bravest and the best,We stand, who cannot share the fray,Staunch for the danger and the test.For them ...
When you were weary, roaming the wide world, over,I gave my fickle heart to a new lover.Now they tell me ...
508I'm ceded-I've stopped being Theirs-The name They dropped upon my faceWith water, in the country churchIs finished using, now,And They ...
I touched the limit of supremest bliss, Knew joy's whole secret on this golden day; When in my arms my ...
That Garden of sedate PhilosophyOnce flourished, fenced from passion and mishap,A shining spot upon a shaggy map;Where mind and body, ...
Cast on the lily's cheek the rose's glow, And while the world with morning dew is wet, Inhale the fragrance ...
There is in Egypt by the ancient NileA temple of imperishable stone,Stupendous, columned, hieroglyphed, and knownTo all the world as ...
How can it be that I forget The way he phrased my doom, When I recall the arabesques That carpeted ...
Here she lies, in bed of spice, Fair as Eve in paradise; For her beauty, it was such, Poets could ...
Ah, my Perilla, dost thou grieve to see Me day by day to steal away from thee? Age calls me ...
One Blessing had I than the rest So larger to my Eyes That I stopped gauging -- satisfied -- For ...
I'm ceded -- I've stopped being Theirs -- The name They dropped upon my face With water, in the country ...
Budger of history Brake of time You Bomb Toy of universe Grandest of all snatched sky I cannot hate you ...
Smith, great writer of stories, drank; found it immortalized his pen; Fused in his brain-pan, else a blank, heavens of ...
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