The Tossing Mountains (John Freeman Poems)
They were like dreams that in a drowsy hourA sad old God had dreamed in loneliness of power.They were like ...
They were like dreams that in a drowsy hourA sad old God had dreamed in loneliness of power.They were like ...
Thine is a grief, the depth of which anotherMay never know;Yet, o'er the waters, O my stricken brother!To thee I ...
Fall the shadows on the gullies, fades the purple from the mountain;And the day that's passing outwards down the stairways ...
THIS is the song of the HillsIn the hour when they talk together,When the alpen glow dies down in the ...
O SHINING, sapphire sea!From thy bosom put awayEvery vexing thought to - day;Smile through all thy dimpling spray:All that earth ...
BOOK IV.So did that youth choose Duty before Love:And so determination drove awayThe doubts that held him with ungainly checkWavering—for ...
Not yet! I thought this time 'twas done at last, the workings perfected, the life in it; and there's the ...
It was thus in the beginning: With a sporting chance of winning, Jones contested an election years ago.He was young, ...
1The first enters wearing the neon armourOf virtue.Ceaselessly firing all-purpose smilesAt everyone presentShe destroys hopeIn the breasts of the sick,Who ...
YOU said, last night, you did not think In all the world of men Was one true lover--true alike In ...
"IIn morning breeze, the Indian summer's gold Of sun on Mildred's happy cheeks aglow Beneath dark hair; it glistens on ...
By the margent of the seaI would build myself a home.Not by the margent of the sea,But on the hilltop ...
This is the song of the many Who seldom are mentioned in praise, The glorious millions of toilers Who splendidly ...
AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR"I was with Grant"--the stranger said; Said the farmer, "Say no more,But rest thee here at ...
Come where the white waves dance along the shore Of some lone isle, lost in the unknown seas; ...
Now in the circulating torrent of the starsCertain events are drawn correct and clearFaces that wear expressions of anguish and ...
We shall not ask for the precious pearl of the Duke of Sui, nor for the priceless jade disk of ...
The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the ...
I O THOU, that sit'st upon a throne, With harp of high majestic tone, To praise the King of kings; ...
Nothing in life is alien to you: I was a penniless girl from Summum Who stepped from the morning train ...
1 We, whose lungs fill with the sweetness of day. Who in May admire trees flowering Are better than those ...
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