The Settler (Alfred Billings Street Poems)
"HIS echoing axe the settler swung Amid the sea-like solitude, And rushing, thundering, down were flung ...
"HIS echoing axe the settler swung Amid the sea-like solitude, And rushing, thundering, down were flung ...
Through the wild night, the silence and the dark, Through league on league of the uncharted sky, Lonelier than ...
AMONG the crowd, one, with a gayer face Than most, came swaggering; the Sabine Bard, The Roman Priest of Song, ...
"IOTHERS endure Man's rule: he therefore deems I shall endure it-I, the unconquered Air! Imagines this triumphant strength ...
O a song for Joyce's Country, where the grim wild mountains be, And the wind wails over the moorland as ...
If we were fashioned to be ignorant, And frisk and frolic with the kid and fawn, Rest with the sun ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
COVER thy spacious heavens, Zeus, With clouds of mist, And, like the boy who lops The thistles' heads, Disport with ...
When we talk of faith the example of the titans the pillars, the saints the leaders before us Peter, Paul, ...
Standing, ever standing against the winds, the mighty sequoias, standing; but not in solitary defiance No they are standing, together ...
So much a part of us, of our lives our life together, with each other, with them Constant reminds, gifts ...
Forth flashed the serpent streak of steel, Consummate crown of man's device; Down crashed upon an immobile And brainless barrier ...
Forth flashed the serpent streak of steel, Consummate crown of man's device; Down crashed upon an immobile And brainless barrier ...
It is full summer now, the heart of June; Not yet the sunburnt reapers are astir Upon the upland meadow ...
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
How gracefully, O man, with thy palm-bough, Upon the waning century standest thou, In proud and noble manhood's prime, With ...
CANTO IIII To sinfull house of Pride, Duessa guides the faithfull knight, Where brothers death to wreak Sansjoy doth chalenge ...
Obit 23rd April 1616 Is it not strange that on this common date, Two titans of their age, aye of ...
WHERE are now the dreams divine, Fires that lit the dawning soul, As the ruddy colours shine Through an opal ...
I We thrill too strangely at the master's touch; We shrink too sadly from the larger self Which for its ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
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