To A Child (Christopher Morley Poems)
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years ...
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years ...
I STOOD alone in purple space and sawThe burning walls of the world, like wings of flame,Circling the sphere: there ...
THIS is a day the Lord hath made."--Thus spake The good religious heart, unstained, unworn, Watching the golden glory of ...
What can I give thee back, O liberalAnd princely giver, who hast brought the goldAnd purple of thine heart, unstained, ...
Lord let me not in service lag.Let me be worthy of our flag.Let me remember when I'm tired,The sons heroic ...
A FRIEND has passed Across the bay, So wide and vast, And put away The mortal form That held his ...
The Bell in the convent tower swung. High overhead the great sun hung, A navel for the curving sky. The ...
Paul Jannes was working very late, For this watch must be done by eight To-morrow or the Cardinal Would certainly ...
Silent is the house: all are laid asleep: One alone looks out o'er the snow-wreaths deep, Watching every cloud, dreading ...
What can I give thee back, O liberal And princely giver, who hast brought the gold And purple of thine ...
The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast, And the woods, against a stormy sky, Their giant ...
In Dwimordene, in Lorien Seldom have walked the feet of men, Few mortal eyes have seen the light That lies ...
Dedication These to His Memory--since he held them dear, Perchance as finding there unconsciously Some image of himself--I dedicate, I ...
That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of ...
That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of ...
My friend has gone away from me From shadow into perfect light, But leaving a sweet legacy. My heart shall ...
Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining ...
Daughter to that good Earl, one President Of England's Council and her Treasury, Who lived in both unstained with gold ...
after Juan Ramon A child wakens in a cold apartment. The windows are frosted. Outside he hears words rising from ...
[How different people and different animals look upon the moon: showing that each creature finds in it his own mood ...
To range, deep-wrapt, along a heavenly height, O'erseeing all that man but undersees; To loiter down lone alleys of delight, ...
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