Michael Oaktree (Alfred Noyes Poems)
Under an arch of glorious leaves I passedOut of the wood and saw the sickle moonFloating in daylight o'er the ...
Under an arch of glorious leaves I passedOut of the wood and saw the sickle moonFloating in daylight o'er the ...
I.(_On many recent novels by the conventional unconventionalists_.)Old Pantaloon, lean-witted, dour and rich, After grim years of soul-destroying greed,Weds Columbine, ...
Sun-child, as you watched the rain Beat the pane, Saw the garden of your ...
The sunset lingered in the pale green West: In rosy wastes the low soft evening starWoke; while the last white ...
Hushed are the whimpering winds on the hill, Dumb is the shrinking plain,And the songs that enchanted the woods ...
I Yes! Beauty still rebels! Our dreams like clouds disperse: ...
Queen of queens, oh lady mine, You who say you love me, Here's a cup of crimson ...
In old Japan, by creek and bay,The blue plum-blossoms blow,Where birds with sea-blue plumage gayThrough sea-blue branches go:Dragons are coiling ...
_The old gentleman, tapping his amber snuff-box(A heart-shaped snuff-box with a golden clasp)Stared at the dying fire. "I'd like them ...
(Written after hearing a line of Keats repeated by a passing strangerunder the palms of Southern California.)Under the palms of ...
How like the sky she bends above her child, One with the great horizon of her pain! No sob ...
IMoving through the dew, moving through the dew, Ere I waken in the city-Life, thy dawn makes all things new! ...
Give me the sunlight and the seaAnd who shall take my heaven from me?Light of the Sun, Life of the ...
There came a crowder to the Mermaid Inn, One dark May night,Fiddling a tune that quelled our motley din, With ...
_There are no ghosts in America._There are no ghosts, you say, To haunt her blaze of light;No shadows in her ...
II found a dreadful acre of the dead, Marked with the only sign on earth that saves. The wings ...
Our cavalry have rescued Nazareth from the enemy whose supermendescribed Christianity as a creed for slaves.The Emperor mocked at Nazareth ...
It is not over yet-the fightWhere those immortal dreamers failed.They stormed the citadels of night,And the night praised them-and prevailed.So ...
Now to those who search the deep,Gleam of Hope and Kindly Light,Once, before you turn to sleep,Breathe a message through ...
In the cool of the evening, when the low sweet whispers waken,When the laborers turn them homeward, and the weary ...
Not with a flash that rends the blue Shall fall the avenging sword.Gently as the evening dew Descends the mighty ...
I How beautiful is the battle, How splendid are the spears, When our banner is the ...
Wonder in happy eyes Fades, fades away:And the angel-coloured skies Whisper farewell.Loveliness over the strings of the heart may stray ...
PART ONE The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed ...
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