Festus – II (Philip James Bailey Poems)
From heaven, soul--like, to earth. It is sundown. MarkThe heart's state, empty and collapsed, the world'sVain pleasures leave us in, ...
From heaven, soul--like, to earth. It is sundown. MarkThe heart's state, empty and collapsed, the world'sVain pleasures leave us in, ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remainedAt Jordan with the Baptist, and had seenHim whom they heard so late expressly calledJesus ...
IF I shall ever win the home in heavenFor whose sweet rest I humbly hope and pray,In the great company ...
HE LONGED to be a Back-Blocks Bard, And fame he wished to win-He wrote at night and studied hard (He read The ...
In gloom and thunder,That day of wonderShall burst unlooked for in the midst of life,When bells are ringing,And maidens singing,And ...
THERE'S a Sampson, lying, sleeping in the land,He shall soon awake, and with avenging hand,In an all unlooked for hour,He ...
We do accept thee, heavenly Peace! Albeit thou comest in a guise Unlooked for—undesired, our eyesWelcome through tears the sweet releaseFrom war, ...
''Not with you to take counsel, Powers of heaven,-- For still that title ours,--in so great haste Hither have I ...
All night funereal darkness pall'd the earth; The worn--out soldiers slumbered heavily: The anxious chiefs themselves, in grave--like sleep, Till ...
Accurs?d to the Medes, as to himself, That fatal hour when,--mad with fiercest hate,-- His private wrong on one man ...
Three times the glorious god of light, and life, Along the sapphire pavement of the sky Careering,--through the immense of ...
Come out into the garden, Maud; In whispered tones young Percy said: He but repeated what ...
As busy Aurelia, 'twixt work and 'twixt play, Was labouring industriously hardTo cull the vile weeds from the flowerets away, ...
With many a tear, and sigh of fond regretWe left thee Thornton, in thy foreign grave,Even where the wide, and ...
We are the vagabonds of time, And rove the yellow autumn days, When all the roads are gray with rime ...
Let those who are in favour with their stars Of public honour and proud titles boast, Whilst I, whom fortune ...
Lo, in the orient when the gracious light Lifts up his burning head, each under eye Doth homage to his ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
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