In The Realm Of Night (E J Rupert Atkinson Poems)
I.THE flowing night awoken from my sleepRevealed a world of glory, while I stoodWatching the hazy, creeping ocean sweepOut of ...
I.THE flowing night awoken from my sleepRevealed a world of glory, while I stoodWatching the hazy, creeping ocean sweepOut of ...
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 ...
I. The Builders Of The PyramidO, CELESTIAL Khu-fu, ThouKing, art Osiris now.Our lives were Thine, yet were we freeTo live ...
A MERE two hundred years ago he spoke,He arguing with me - I can hear him croakStill, at my side ...
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 ...
He: Blue, blue eternally, dark waves and skyBlue - and beyond unending deeps of blue,This and the emerald earth, the ...
WHAT dream in what strange landShall waken me to-night? What sweetLips burn for mine? What arms entwineMy neck, my knees, ...
Down crumbling steps I galloped fast;Swart cliffs and gullies on each handEngulfed the night; dry, yellow sand,Far-strewn with wreckage, gaped ...
BEHOLD it was this very night:Outwearied with the plaintive rain.I rose, 1 cast her from my sight -Who loves, must ...
HE had said, "Thank God for my body obscene,For the lust that oppresses life, choking me;Hereby shall I prove my ...
I DREDGE my soul for buried memories.The pomp of perished ages, once divine,Breaks dawn-like over realms that gleam and shineMysterious ...
YOURSELF most composite,Chequered with day and night,What secret thing are you? -Behold that sky of blue:All that you hear and ...
AS from unnumbered worlds awayI found myself My drowsy feetToil up the hill; the summer heatThrobs through the vacant city ...
SWEET, with the dark of night entangled inHer bright hair's revelry, and with the sky'sClear blue illumining her eyes.She comes ...
Contemptuous of universes, ISurvey all space devoid of fear or trust.With will defiant fearful to defy,Awed by the vastness of ...
WHEN black midnight owls their hootingCease, and whisperings ebb and fall,Buds are shaken,And thin shootingTendrils waken -Fairies call IGaily crickets ...
THERE was a king, a jovial king.Rode out across the heather -O he could laugh and he could singWhen we ...
REMOTE, strange relics of romance are piledInside and out, each with its tragic tale.Forlorn, quiescent. Listen ! Through thepalePast, through ...
THE wide streets glimmer in gray solitude.A last belated reveller, roistering by,Jerks out a catch, a spasm as to defyNight, ...
ONLY the stillness of the airBurdens the far unending plain;And but for this there is no sound save whereSome bird ...
I AND the right, and naught beside,The distant ocean's weary moan,The murmur of the ebbing tideReplying to the ocean sob;This, ...
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