Tithonus (Alan Seeger Poems)
So when the verdure of his life was shed, With all the grace of ripened manlihead, And on his locks, ...
So when the verdure of his life was shed, With all the grace of ripened manlihead, And on his locks, ...
Press each on each, sweet wings, and roof me in Some clos?d cell to hold my weariness,Desired—as from unshadowed plains ...
You have felt his power—you have felt his power—For a mighty one is he:He is found in the field and ...
After night's thunder far away had rolledThe fiery day had a kernel sweet of cold,And in the perfect blue the ...
THE Room is getting cold, one gas-light burns And the fire is now a monotonous red glow ; The old ...
There was a fountain in my heart Whose deeps had not been stirred;A thirst for music in my soul My ...
Toil, toil, toil,Ever, unceasingly;The sun gets up, and the sun goes down,Alike in the city, in field or town,He brings ...
HUNTSMAN, that on the hills above To hunt the deer hast been,Tell me, I pray thee, if my love-- ...
Here are pansies to plant round thy tomb,For thought, busy meddling thought,Recalls what thou wert, and thy doomAwakens the sadness ...
It's so gracefully snowing today: Snow-white blossoms unceasingly fall. Just like that my first love died away With its passionate ...
The new moon marked the twilight hour, A night-jar quavered eerily, And swallows circled round the tower-- Saint ...
What torture lurks within a single thought When grown too constant, and however kind, However welcome still, the weary mind ...
The morn arrived; his footstep quickly scared The gentle sleep that round my senses clung, And I, awak'ning, from my ...
VAINLY wouldst thou, to gain a heart, Heap up a maiden's lap with gold; The joys of love thou must ...
Moving from left to left, the light is heavy on the Dome, and coarse. One small lunette turns it aside ...
So when the verdure of his life was shed, With all the grace of ripened manlihead, And on his locks, ...
So Eden was deserted, and at eve Into the quiet place God came to grieve. His face was sad, His ...
I PITIED one whose tattered dress Was patched, and stained with dust and rain; He smiled on me; I could ...
(ALCAICS) Confused, he found her lavishing feminine Gold upon clay, and found her inscrutable; And yet she smiled. Why, then, ...
"Do I hear them? Yes, I hear the children singing-and what of it? Have you come with eyes afire to ...
I KNOW a little garden-close Set thick with lily and red rose, Where I would wander if I might From ...
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