Ariel And Caliban (Christopher Pearse Cranch Poems)
I.Before PROSPERO'S cell. Moonlight.ARIEL.So - Prospero is gone - and I am free -Free, free at last. His latest charge ...
I.Before PROSPERO'S cell. Moonlight.ARIEL.So - Prospero is gone - and I am free -Free, free at last. His latest charge ...
I.IN the beautiful Castleton Island a mansion of lordly style,Embowered in gardens and lawns, looks over the glimmering bay.In the ...
A CHORUS OF HUMAN SPIRITS IN THE MIST.FAR in the shuddering spaces of the NorthWe live. We saw a ShapeOf ...
A Hundred years - and she had sat, a queenSheltering her children, opening wide her gatesTo all the inflowing tribes ...
OUT of the cloud that dimmed his sunset light,Into the unknown firmament withdrawnBeyond the mists and shadows of the night,We ...
A GROAN from a dim-lit upper room -A stealthy step on the stairs in the gloom -A hurried glance to ...
COLD philosophers, so aptWith your formulas exacting,In your problems so enwrapt,And your theories distracting;Webs of metaphysic doubtOn your wheels forever ...
WHAT lapse or accident of timeCan dull that soul's sonorous chimeWhich owns the priceless heritage -Youth's summer warmth in wintry ...
READING in Omar till the thoughts that burnedUpon his pages seemed to be inurnedWithin me in a silent fire, my ...
O BOON and curse in one - this ceaseless needOf looking still behind us and before!Gift to the soul of ...
ON a time - not of old -When a poet had sent out his soul and no welcome had foundWhere ...
GRAY-HEADED POETS, whom the full years blessWith life and health and chance still multipliedTo hold your forward course - fame ...
I STARTED on a lonely road.A few companions with me went.Some fell behind, some forward strode,But all on one high ...
AH, who can tell which guide were bestTo truth long sought, but unattained -The early faith, or late unrest?What age ...
NAUGHT but the fittest lives, I hearRing on the northern breeze of thought:"To Nature's heart the strong are dear,The weak ...
UNBIDDEN to the feast where friends have brought,To greet thy seventy years, their wreaths of rhyme, -For that thy form ...
IN boyhood's days we read with keen delightHow young Aladdin rubbed his lamp and raisedThe towering Djin whose form his ...
O SOLEMN portal, veiled in mist and cloud,Where all who have lived throng in, an endless line,Forbid to tell by ...
THE wish behind the thought is the soul's starOf faith, and out of earth we build our heaven.Life to each ...
THE mind's deep history here in tones is wrought,The faith, the struggles of the aspiring soul,The confidence of youth, the ...
BEYOND the low marsh-meadows and the beach,Seen through the hoary trunks of windy pines,The long blue level of the ocean ...
A MIRACLE - that man should learn to fillThese little vessels with his boundless soul;Should through these arbitrary signs controlThe ...
THE Summer goes, with all its birds and flowers;The Autumn passes with its solemn sky;The Winter comes again - yet ...
OF love that was, of friendship in the daysOf youth long gone, yet oft remembered still,And seen like distant landscapes ...
THE small enlarged, the distant nearer broughtTo sight, made marvels in a denser age.But Science turns with every year a ...
OR endless sleep 't will be, - and that is rest,Freedom forever from life's weary cares -Or else a life ...
YET what were love, and what were toil and thought,And what were life, bereft of Poesy?Who lingers in a garden ...
I MET one in the Land of SleepWho seemed a friend long known and true.I woke. That friend I could ...
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