Cliche Came Out of its Cage (C. S. Lewis Poems)
1You said 'The world is going back to Paganism'.Oh bright Vision! I saw our dynasty in the bar of the ...
1You said 'The world is going back to Paganism'.Oh bright Vision! I saw our dynasty in the bar of the ...
Thank God that there are solid folkWho water flowers and roll the lawn,And sit an sew and talk and smoke,And ...
I heard the swallow sing in the eaves and roseAll in a strange delight while others slept,And down the creaking ...
So piteously the lonely soul of manShudders before this universal plan,So grievous is the burden and the pain,So heavy weighs ...
Come let us curse our Master ere we die,For all our hopes in endless ruin lie.The good is dead. Let ...
Suddenly there came to meThe music of a mighty seaThat on a bare and iron shoreThundered with a deeper roarThan ...
Lead us, Evolution, lead usUp the future's endless stair;Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us.For stagnation is despair:Groping, guessing, ...
Through the starry hollowOf the summer nightI would follow, followHesperus the bright,To seek beyond the western waveHis garden of delight.Hesperus ...
Now the grey mist comes creeping upFrom the waste ocean's weedy strandAnd fills the valley, as a cupIf filled of ...
The big, red-house is bare and loneThe stony garden waste and sereWith blight of breezes ocean blownTo pinch the wakening ...
Open the gates for me,Open the gates of the peaceful castle, rosy in the West,In the sweet dim Isle of ...
All the things magicians doCould be done by me and youFreely, if we only knew.Human children every dayCould play at ...
Long leagues on either hand the trenches spreadAnd all is still; now even this gross lineDrinks in the frosty silences ...
If men should ask, Despoina, why I tellOf nothing glad nor noble in my verseTo lighten hearts beneath this present ...
Against too many writers of science fictionWhy did you lure us on like this,Light-year on light-year, through the abyss,Building (as ...
I cried out for the pain of man,I cried out for my bitter wrathAgainst the hopeless life that ranFor ever ...
All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you.I never had a selfless thought since I was born.I am mercenary and ...
Arise my body, my small body, we have strivenEnough, and He is merciful; we are forgiven.Arise small body, puppet-like and ...
There is a house that most of all on earth I hate.Though I have passed through many sorrows and have ...
Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes ...
O Dwellers at the back of the North Wind,What have we done to you? How have we sinnedWandering the Earth ...
Woe unto you, ye sons of pain that are this day in earth,Now cry for all your torment: now curse ...
Thank God that there are solid folkWho water flowers and roll the lawn,And sit and sew and talk and smoke,And ...
I heard the swallow sing in the eaves and roseAll in a strange delight while others slept,And down the creaking ...
Who shall be our prophet then,Chosen from all the sons of menTo lead his fellows on the wayOf hidden knowledge, ...
So piteously the lonely soul of manShudders before this universal plan,So grievous is the burden and the pain,So heavy weighs ...
Trapped amid the woods with guileThey've led her bound in fetters vileTo death, a deadlier sorceressThan any born for earth's ...
Love, there is a castle built in a country desolate,On a rock above a forest where the trees are grim ...
Suddenly there came to meThe music of a mighty seaThat on a bare and iron shoreThundered with a deeper roarThan ...
I woke and rose and slipt awayTo the heathery hills in the morning grey.In a field where the dew lay ...
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