The Waters of Babylon (Archbishop William Alexander Poems)
'C'est l? le myst?re apr?s lequel soupirent toutes les ?mes exil?es, qui s'affligent sur les fleuves de Babylon en se ...
'C'est l? le myst?re apr?s lequel soupirent toutes les ?mes exil?es, qui s'affligent sur les fleuves de Babylon en se ...
The enchanted island rose before me, drawnMore beautiful than words of mine may reach;It lay magnificent in a magic dawn,And ...
AN ARMENIAN LEGEND'Tis sunset, and the wind is blowing fair;Her anchor soon the good ship will be weighing,Toward the cross ...
Late, late, in the October afternoon,The monks sat listening spellbound in the choir;The voice went ringing on, a lovely tune,A ...
IRise up, Lord,And let Thine enemies be scattered,And let them that hate Thee flee before Thee!As the dispersion of smoke-drift,Thou ...
IBless the Lord, O my soul!O Lord, my God!Very great hast Thou been.Splendour and majestyThou hast put on as a ...
IHeavily my desk uponLay a Hebrew Lexicon.As I pried into the tomeI thought me of Saint Hierome,By the Jew tormented ...
IIn the Indian dawnMany a long, voluminous fold,Vicious blue and viscous gold,Twenty living feet of hell,Glides a snake into the ...
And up the stream of days he seem'd to float,And twice seven years was toiling for his wife:And all his ...
At work within his barn since very early,Fairly tired out with toiling all the day,Upon the small bed where he ...
A FRAGMENTBehold! on an Assyrian quayFast by the town of Nineveh,At moon of night, methought I stoodWhere Tigris went with ...
O Wonderful! round whose birth-hourProphetic song, miraculous power,Cluster and burn, like star and flower.Those marvellous rays that at Thy will,From ...
As a child in some far and quiet placeBy earth scarce stirr'dGrows shy as is some forest bird,And almost feareth ...
AN OLD MAN'S OPTIMISM I'Tis dark around on either hand-Old I am, marching in a mountain land.Will the dawn never ...
Wherefore his picture evermore was huedOver with colours, peradventure fine,But mixed not for a Heav'n-conceived design.A creed that like the ...
O that a fortnight's Truce of God might sound!O that this land of eloquence and witIn the rich tones that ...
He lived to learn, to watch his knowledge grow,Nightly to question what advance preciseTwelve hours had given to that tide ...
What love I when I love Thee, O my God?Not corporal beauty, nor the limb of snow,Nor of loved light ...
Beside the dead man two veil'd women sit;All the night long over the catafalqueTwelve tapers burn; from many a precious ...
FOR A WARD OF A HOSPITALThy body rests beneath the Italian sod,Thy soul's inheritance is the light of God;Yet here ...
IN DERRY CATHEDRALDown through our crowded lanes, and closer air,O friend, how beautiful thy footsteps were;When through the fever's waves ...
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