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 ...
The dial has pointed the hour and the hour has rounded the day, The day has finished the ...
I. Eagle-heart, child-heart, bonnie lad o' dreams, Far away thy soul hears passion-throated Art Singing ...
_I have been kissed by the Priestess of the Thin and Deadly Blood-- With the kiss that men ...
I. Mouths have they, but they speak not: Yet something in the certainty of faith ...
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 ...
(Battleships of the Coronation Naval Review, Spithead, England, June 24,1911.) Hail, sceptered Mars, great god of wars! ...
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; ...
It wouldn't be fair to Belshazzar When speaking of madness and mirth, To draw from his revel ...
She comes not with the conscious grace Of gentle, winsome womanhood, Nor yet, withal, the flaunting face ...
You have builded your ships in the sun-lands, And launched them with song and wine; They are ...
(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 ...
The eyrie clung to the shattered cliff That the glacier's torrent thundered under; And the unfledged eaglet's ...
What will I say when face to face with God My naked soul shall come, seared with the stain ...
You were a red rose then, I know, Red as her wine--yea, redder still,-- Say rather her ...
I. With the light just quenched in their eyes They lie in their graves 'neath the skies, ...
Lucifer craved one boon of God After his fall, as his own to hold; So He gave ...
(Oscar Wilde.) I gazed upon thee desolate and heard Thine anguished cry when fell the iron gin ...
(Written on the occasion of the bringing of the body of Admiral JohnPaul Jones to the United States for reburial.) ...
(Written on the ter-centenary of John Milton, December 9, 1908.) Immortal singer, in whose glorious brain Unearthly ...
Unweariedly he watches for the sign, The sign I promised from the farthest goal, My lover of ...
The snowy clouds, soft sleeping lambkins, lie Along the dark blue meadows of the sky, And the ...
Here is the freedom men die for,--die for but never know; Here is the peace they pray for shrined ...
(Written on the exhumation and reburial in Spain of the bones ofChristopher Columbus.) Once more upon the ocean's heaving ...
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