The Voice Calling (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Poems)
IN the hush of April weather, With the bees in budding heather, And the white clouds floating, floating, and the ...
IN the hush of April weather, With the bees in budding heather, And the white clouds floating, floating, and the ...
METHINKS I hear the band of saints above, In holy anthem join'd, their voices raise,Tuning their golden harps to ...
Night comes upon the earth; and fearfully Arise the mighty winds, and sweep along In the full chorus ...
(A Modernity) Twelve good friends Passed under her hat, And devil a one of them Knew where he was at. Had they but known, Then had they known all things, — The littleness of great things, The unmeasured immensity of small things. They had known the Where and the Why, The When and the Wherefore, And how the Eternal Conceived the Eternal, and therefore Beginning began the Beginning; They had apprehended The ultimate virtue of sinning; They had caught the whisper That Vega vibrates to Arcturus, Piercing the walls Of heavy flesh that immure us. But if they had known, Then had there been no mystery; And Life had been poorer, And laughter unsurer, And the shadow of death securer, By lack of this brief history.(Charles G. D. Roberts)
UPON THE MARKS OF ROYAL BOUNTY WHICH SHERECEIVED AT A VERY ADVANCED AGE, AFTERTHE DEATH OF HER FRIEND THE DUCHESS ...
The night vibrates with the chatter of trucks,Of clanking couplings and screaming wheels;A column of smoke glows pink from an ...
Night creeps into the cellars, musty and dull.Tuxedos totter through the rubble of the street.Faces are moldy and worn out.The ...
begin at a chapter you have read before with new words and a new hand turning the pages where the ...
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory— Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. ...
1 HARK! some wild trumpeter-some strange musician, Hovering unseen in air, vibrates capricious tunes to-night. I hear thee, trumpeter-listening, alert, ...
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
Go thou and seek the House of Prayer! I to the Woodlands wend, and there In lovely Nature see the ...
(After Valery) This hushed surface where the doves parade Amid the pines vibrates, amid the graves; Here the noon's justice ...
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory -- Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they ...
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory - Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they ...
DEAR SHADE OF HIM, who grac'd the mimick scene, And charm'd attention with resistless pow'r; Whose wond'rous art, whose fascinating ...
O THOU, whose sober precepts can controul The wild impatience of the troubled soul, Sweet Nymph serene ! whose all-consoling ...
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
There is still the wind that I remember firing the manes of horses, racing, slanting, across the plains, the wind ...
The earth again like a ship steams out of the dark sea over The edge of the blue, and the ...
I A dream of interlinking hands, of feet Tireless to spin the unseen, fairy woof Of the entangling waltz. Bright ...
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