The Other House (John Freeman Poems)
That other house, in the same crowded street,One red-tiled floor had, answering to my feet,And a bewildering garden all of ...
That other house, in the same crowded street,One red-tiled floor had, answering to my feet,And a bewildering garden all of ...
IT chanced to me upon a time to sailAcross the Southern Ocean to and fro;And, landing at fair isles, by ...
It was a dayAll blue and lifting white,When I went into the fields with FrankTo fly his kite. The fields were ...
How quietly beneath the quiet skyThese men are sleeping who shall never wake!But soon the plough, the harrow, and the ...
THE dreamer cried, ((Oh, that it once were mineO build a song that should defy the years-One that should lift ...
NOT to the brave upon the battle-fieldAlone, the palms of victory belong,Nor only to the great of earth the songOf ...
She pass'd away like morning dewBefore the sun was high;So brief her time, she scarcely knewThe meaning of a sigh.As ...
Unnoted as the setting of a starHe passed; and sect and party scarcely knewWhen from their midst a sage and ...
Tombed in the solid night of starless space; From nearest living orb so far removed, That light, of all material ...
For, day and night, by restless demons stirred,-- Like many fires in one combustion joined,-- King, sorcerers, priests, rulers, and ...
WAINAMOINEN'S SOWING.Then arose old Wainamoinen,With his feet upon the island,On the island washed by ocean,Broad expanse devoid of verdure;There remained ...
Oh, but the heavenly grammar did I holdOf that high speech which angels' tongues turn gold!So should her deathless beauty ...
Once on a time there was a man so hideous and ugly That little children shrank and tried to ...
I He whom we anatomized 'whose words we gathered as pleasant flowers and thought on his wit and how neatly ...
Into all the onward current and this iron time that feels Its own way with din and clamour through this ...
There is a parable in the pathless cloud,There's prophecy in heaven,--they did not lie,The Chaldee shepherds; seal-ed from the proud,To ...
A little cottage just atop the brae, That now within its patch of ground is shown, Stood for long years ...
THE Summer goes, with all its birds and flowers;The Autumn passes with its solemn sky;The Winter comes again - yet ...
See! Winter comes, to rule the varied Year, Sullen, and sad; with all his rising Train, Vapours, and Clouds, and ...
I see it as it looked one afternoon In August,-by a fresh soft breeze o'erblown. The swiftness of the tide, ...
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