Dum Agonizatur Anima, Orent Assistentes (Digby Mackworth Dolben Poems)
Think, kind Jesu, my salvationCaused Thy wondrous Incarnation,Leave me not to reprobation.Faint and weary Thou hast sought me,On the Cross ...
Think, kind Jesu, my salvationCaused Thy wondrous Incarnation,Leave me not to reprobation.Faint and weary Thou hast sought me,On the Cross ...
I pray you this my song to takeNot scornfully, for Boyhood's sake;It is the last, until the dayWhen your kind ...
Where in dawnward SicilyGentle rivers wed the sea,Bitter life was given me.Gods that are most desolateFor their loveliness and stateBeing ...
I'Twas not in shady cloister that God set His chosen one,But in the van of battle and the streets of ...
My Love, and once again my Love,And then no more until the end,Until the waters cease to move,Until we rest ...
Osculo oris sui osculetur me.Christ, for whose only Love I keep me cleanAmong the palaces of Babylon,I would not Thou ...
Press each on each, sweet wings, and roof me in Some clos?d cell to hold my weariness,Desired—as from unshadowed plains ...
Sing me the men ere thisWho, to the gate that isA cloven pearl uprapt,The big white bars betweenWith dying eyes ...
Tell us, tell us, holy shepherds, What at Bethlehem you saw.—'Very God of Very God 'Asleep amid the straw.'Tell us, ...
There is a shrine whose golden gate Was opened by the Hand of God;It stands serene, inviolate, Though millions have ...
The world is young today: Forget the gods are old, Forget the years of goldWhen all the months were May.A ...
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