The Colonel’s Story (Cale Young Rice Poems)
No, no, my friend; there is an agony Not to be exorcised out of the world By any ...
No, no, my friend; there is an agony Not to be exorcised out of the world By any ...
I O-Shichi, all my heart today Is dreaming of your fate; And of your little house that ...
Down the palm-way from Eden in the mid-night Lay dreaming Eve by her outdriven mate, Pillowed on lilies ...
I thought I plunged into that dire Abyss Which is Oblivion, the house of Death. I thought there ...
(_The Cry of the Modern_) World-sorrow have I known, like unto God. Nothing there is of pain but echoes down ...
She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain springs; ...
All the ships of the world come here, Rest a little, then set to sea; Some ride ...
My heart is open again and sea flows in, It shall fill with a summer of mists and winds and ...
Under the Indian stars,Mumtaz Mahal, I am sitting,Watching them wind their silent wayOver your wistful Tomb;Watching the crescent prowOf the ...
I want to go back to Singapore And ship along the Straits,To a bungalow I know beside Penang; Where cocoanut ...
1 Tho' thou hast ne'er unpent thy pain's delight Upon these airs, bird of the poet's love, ...
Summer's last moon has waned-- Waned As amber fires Of an ...
A-bask in the mellow beauty of the ripening sun, Sad with the lingering sense of summer's purpose done, ...
As the cocoanut-palm That pines, my love, Away from the sound Of the planter's voice, Am I, for ...
The eve of Golgotha had come, And Christ lay shrouded in the garden Tomb: Among the olives, Oh, ...
The fierce sea-sunset over the world Springs like a wounded spirit,The waves all day have hissed and hurledTheir fangs and ...
Do women weep when men have died? It cannot be! For I have sat ...
Oh, fisher-fleet, go in from the sea And furl your wings. The bay is gray with the ...
Give me a little child To draw this dreary want out of my breast, I cried ...
Come to the window, you who are mine. Waken! the night is calling. Sit by me here--with ...
(_On a Devon Moor_) Why do I babble of bitter chills-- And icy trees--and snowy fallows? Why do I shudder ...
Lord, what ship goes forth to-day? I see her setting West.Shall she have thy winds aright,Stars to guide her with ...
Do you remember Etajima, And how, upon a moon-fogged sea, As ghostly as ever a tide shall be, ...
(_To A. H. R._)Out on the sea the sampans ride And the mountains brim with mist and sun.O we are ...
Dusking amber dimly creeps Over the vale, Lit by the kildee's silver sweeps, Sad with ...
I lingered still when you were gone, When tryst and trust were o'er, While memory like a ...
I'll look no more! thro timeless hours my eyes Without intent have watched the slowing flight Of ebon crows across ...
Tossing, swirling, swept by the wind, Beaten abaft by the rain, The swallows high in the ...
Brown dropping of leaves, Soft rush of the wind, Slow searing of sheaves On the hill; ...
I woke at night in my eternal tombThe desert sands had hid a thousand years,And heard the Nile-crier across the ...
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