Festus – XIII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
In one of earth'sHead cities, awaiting this, the effect unknown,Of evil, not, truly, all--wise, we towerlike rise;With eminent but indifferent ...
In one of earth'sHead cities, awaiting this, the effect unknown,Of evil, not, truly, all--wise, we towerlike rise;With eminent but indifferent ...
MAY 26, 1880SIRE, son, and grandson; so the century glides;Three lives, three strides, three foot-prints in the sand;Silent as midnight's ...
Chaucer is dead; and Gower lies in grave;The Earl of Surrey long ago is gone;Sir Philip Sidney's soul the heavens ...
Tombed in the solid night of starless space; From nearest living orb so far removed, That light, of all material ...
IEnter these enchanted woods,You who dare.Nothing harms beneath the leavesMore than waves a swimmer cleaves.Toss your heart up with the ...
From the wide miles of autumn corn, Here to this sun-lit hill, The wind wails for a hope forlorn, And ...
ETERNAL God omnipotent! The OneSole Hope of worlds, Author and Guard aloneOf heaven and earth Thou art, whose high behestForbids ...
The world knows nothing of its greatest men. They have no place in storied page; No rest ...
Little, perhaps, thou valuest verse of mine- Little hast read of what my hand has wrought,Yet I ...
NO light of sun or moon can reach the seed That blindly in the bosom of a flower Ripens through ...
How empty seems the town now you are gone! A wilderness of sad streets, where gaunt walls Hide nothing to ...
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy? Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend, And ...
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy? Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend, And ...
". . . with two other priests; the same night he died, and was buried by the shores of the ...
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