The Passion Play (Charles Hamilton Musgrove Poems)
I. Where falls the shadow of the Kofel cross Athwart the Alpine snows, the rose of faith ...
I. Where falls the shadow of the Kofel cross Athwart the Alpine snows, the rose of faith ...
_I have been kissed by the Priestess of the Thin and Deadly Blood-- With the kiss that men ...
God let me fall from His hand One day at His forge when the elemental world Was shaping. ...
I. Silent as ever, stoic as of old, The scattered nomads of that dusky race Whose story ...
Once in a dream of Babylon I sat with Lilith and Cain At the world-old drama, "From ...
_The Sky Line._ Like black fangs in a cruel ogre's jaw The grim piles lift against the ...
Beyond the wall the passion flower is blooming, Strange hints of life along the winds are blown; ...
She comes not with the conscious grace Of gentle, winsome womanhood, Nor yet, withal, the flaunting face ...
(Written during the hostilities in the Far East in 1900.) Hard by the gates of Eden, Where ...
I. The light of a new day was on his brow, The faith of a great dawn was ...
This is the story of Moses, The earliest scribe that we keep: Void was the earth and ...
_Earthquake._ I am a memory of cosmogony, That first great hour of travail when the voice Of ...
Lucifer craved one boon of God After his fall, as his own to hold; So He gave ...
(Written on the exhumation and reburial in Spain of the bones ofChristopher Columbus.) Once more upon the ocean's heaving ...
_The Child._ I hear you weeping, mother, dear,-- I hear you wake and weep; What brings ...
North and south with the fickle tides, With the wind from east to west, The death-ship follows ...
The poet painted a woman's soul, Human, trusting and kind, And then he drew the soul of ...
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