A Japanese Mother (Cale Young Rice Poems)
(IN TIME OF WAR) The young stork sleeps in the pine-tree tops, Down on the brink ...
(IN TIME OF WAR) The young stork sleeps in the pine-tree tops, Down on the brink ...
The long line of the foaming coast Is muffled by the fog's gray ghost. I cross the league ...
A-bask in the mellow beauty of the ripening sun, Sad with the lingering sense of summer's purpose done, ...
(_Out of Hong-kong_) Never again, never again Did I hope to breathe such joy! The sea ...
Oh ... there was love in her heart--no doubt of it-- Under the anger. But ...
Last night I slipt from the banks of dream And swam in the currents of God, On a tide where ...
The fierce sea-sunset over the world Springs like a wounded spirit,The waves all day have hissed and hurledTheir fangs and ...
Not only the lark but the robin too (Oh, heart o' my heart, come into the wood!) Is ...
(_At Bombay_)Cast me out from among you, I will not see my childLaid aloft where the vultures May clamour for ...
The seraphs would sing to her And from the River Dip her cool grails of radiant Life. ...
Give me a little child To draw this dreary want out of my breast, I cried ...
Thirteenth CenturyThe bells of Oseney(Hautclere, Doucement, Austyn)Chant sweetly every day,And sadly, for our sin.The bells of Oseney(John, Gabriel, Marie)Chant lowly,Chant ...
You who are old-- And have fought the fight-- And have won or lost or left the field-- Weigh us ...
I cannot say thy cheek is like the rose, Thy hair like rippled sunbeams, and thine eyes Like ...
IDragon-fly lightingOn the temple-bell,Whose soul do you hearOn the Day of the Dead?The soul of my lover?Ah me, the plightingBetween ...
Under the sway, in old Japan, Of silent cryptic trees, There is a shrine the worldliest Would near ...
The rocks, lean fingers of the land, Reach out into the sea And cool themselves, all day long, ...
A lone palm leans in the moonlight Over a convent wall.The sea below is waking and breaking With quiet heave ...
(_To A. H. R._) My own, among the unnumbered years God casts from that full Garner which Is His Eternity ...
Ah, what a changeling! Yester you dashed from the west, Altho' it is Spring, And scattered ...
(_To A. H. R. on North Cliff, Lynton, Devon_) White-caps hurry to meet the shore An hundred fathoms down. Gray ...
It is the old old vision, The moonlit sea--and you. I cannot make disseverance Between ...
I woke at night in my eternal tombThe desert sands had hid a thousand years,And heard the Nile-crier across the ...
Within the Holy Sepulchre, breast-high,There is a cross uncounted lips have kissed,Millions the world to dust has long dismissed,Millions that ...
There is in Egypt by the ancient NileA temple of imperishable stone,Stupendous, columned, hieroglyphed, and knownTo all the world as ...
The dun sand-cliffs that break the desert's seaRose suddenly upon my sight at dawn,And terrible in an eternityOf death took ...
From a far minaret of faithful cloudA wraith-muezzin of the sunset criedOver the sea that swung with sultan pride,"Allah is ...
We, spoke of God and Fate, And of that Life--which some await-- Beyond the grave, ...
One wild gull on a wilder storm, Winging to keep her lone heart warm. One wild gull by ...
Flowers are dancing, waves playing, pines swaying, gulls are a-swarm; Sea and heather, sunning together, glad of the weather, ...
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