The King Of Sardis (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
KNOW this : that through all time past Love hasbeenSo sweet that none could perish and not liveForthwith again.Ere Persia ...
KNOW this : that through all time past Love hasbeenSo sweet that none could perish and not liveForthwith again.Ere Persia ...
FROM the squat tavern laughing to the eastHe turned; within the murmuring babbleceas'd;And red wine split on scattered roses thereExhaled ...
HIM, wounded, shackled, pricked with spears,they dragged and goaded through thetown.Up the soaked hill 'neath dripping boughs, acrosssteep ditches slipping ...
GOD dreaming in his star-enshrouded skyBethought himself of me, so even IWho was till then as nothing, leapt to life ...
I. The Builders Of The PyramidO, CELESTIAL Khu-fu, ThouKing, art Osiris now.Our lives were Thine, yet were we freeTo live ...
He found her where white daisies blewAgainst the wood in drift of spray,And glimpses of the sky upthrewBlood from the ...
DO not crave sure ease - to quaffClear crystal cups abrim with wine,When lips are fain to mock and laughAnd ...
IT has taken all time for that wave to swell,Low-ridged, from the ocean over the bay.While cEons withered and nations ...
BEHOLD it was this very night:Outwearied with the plaintive rain.I rose, 1 cast her from my sight -Who loves, must ...
I SAW him where the doomed, a thickening flood,Jostled the brazen Gates of Heaven. HecriedWith dry-parched throat and lips beslimed ...
EACH hour that passes, dead for evermore,Lies in the waste of ages whence the staleAir of unwoken silence, shore to ...
A WORLD for laughter, thisLive earth-abyss IAround the glad gods sitAnd gloat on it,While tottering men dare tread,Tiptoe among the ...
He answered: Though prayers dark 'midsmothering cloudsBeseech my mercy, hearken how I strainAgainst you know not what, whose dreaded shroudsBenumb ...
Let a man drink,For what can he thinkWorthy to sink or worthy to rise-Seeing the gods are up in the ...
OUT of the dead cathedral, where dead saintsMark for untold contempt worn, sorry talesMumbled by fatted priests, whose boast be--wailsEarth, ...
THROUGH hurtling space he fled from star tostarOn pinions of damnation, for there trailedUpon him frantic shapes which clutching wailed,A ...
Who is Great God? If we perish, then the dustAnd mould of earth Is God; and as wemustWe act, devoid ...
SWART hill and shrunken valley, long gray cloudsSmoke all into the sunset, interlacedWith sheen of gold and crimson; vapour shroudsDroop ...
THROUGH pregnant past thousands of years,They laboured, the gods, to mould me -This creature that merits their jeers -Their masterpiece ...
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