A Brother Of The Battuti (Arthur Symons Poems)
Shed, sinful flesh, these tears of blood,For all thy vileness all too few;Wash out, O holy healing flood,The sins that ...
Shed, sinful flesh, these tears of blood,For all thy vileness all too few;Wash out, O holy healing flood,The sins that ...
Only to live, only to beIn Venice, is enough for me.To be a beggar, and to lieAt home beneath the ...
IWhen the sobbing lute complains,Grieving for an ancient sorrow,This poor sorrow that remainsFain would borrow,To give pleading unto sorrow,Those uncapturable ...
Kicking my heels in the street,Here at the edge of the pavement I wait for you, sweet,Here in the crowd, ...
If I could know but when and whyThis piece of thoughtless dust beginsTo think, and straightway I am I,And these ...
The pale moon shining from a pallid skyLit half the street, and over half she laidHer folded mantle; through the ...
Out of the night of the sea,Out of the turbulent night,A sharp and hurrying windScourges the waters white:The terror by ...
Night, and the silence of the night,In Venice; far away, a song;As if the lyric water madeItself a serenade;As if ...
THE BODY Call in the dancers. THE SOUL All is vain. We live, and living is the pain We die ...
To SAROJINI NAIDU A YOUTH OF SHEBA. THE QUEEN OF SHEBA. THE HERALD. ...
FAUSTUS Why am I fettered with eternal change? I follow after changeless love, and find Nothing but change; I seek, ...
I Love now, my heart, there is but now to love; Seek nothing more, but let it be enough That ...
Is it the petals falling from the rose? For in the silence I can hear a sound Nearer than mine ...
I Under the trees in the dell. Here by the side of the stream, Were it not pleasant to dream, ...
I am the prisoner of my love of you. I pace my soul, as prisoned culprits do, You Stand like ...
These are the women whom no man has loved. Year after year, day after day has moved These hearts with ...
It is the beggars who possess the earth. Kings on their throne have but the narrow girth Of some poor ...
Giovanni Malatesta, the lame old man, Walking one night, as he was used, being old, Upon the grey seashore at ...
Away to sweet Felpham, for heaven is there. -- BLAKE. Here Blake saw the seventy-seven Stairs, and golden gates of ...
I There are grey hours when I drink of indifference; all things fade Into the grey of a twilight that ...
Waves of the gentle waters of the healing night, Flow over me with silent peace and golden dark, Wash me ...
I have had enough of women, and enough of love, But the land waits, and the sea waits, and day ...
Behind the door, beyond the light,Who is it waits there in the night?When he has entered he will stand,Imposing with ...
But to have lain upon the grass One perfect day, one perfect hour, Beholding all things mortal pass Into ...
The sun, a fiery orange in the air, Thins and discolours to a disc of tin, Until the breathing mist's ...
This was a woman young and passionate, Loving the Earth, and loving mot to be Where she might be alone ...
I have grown tired of sorrow and human tears;Life is a dream in the night, a fear among fears,A naked ...
I hear the melancholy crying of birds in the night Over the long brown wrinkled fields that lie As far ...
It seems to me, dearest, if you were dead. And thought returned to me after the tears, The hopeless first ...
All the valley fills with wind As a rock-pool with the tide; And the tumult, clashed and dinned, Floods like ...
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