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 ...
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 ...
I DREDGE my soul for buried memories.The pomp of perished ages, once divine,Breaks dawn-like over realms that gleam and shineMysterious ...
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 ...
IF I should gather up my waste-worn hours,Dead blooms of passion heaped about my feet,And breathe again their mellow fragrance ...
DAWN, around packed buildings, flickering,flowered;Daylight full on sullen waters glowing,Rippled; crawling streets stirred; ships, outgoing.Slipped down seaward; wind and chimney ...
THEY are the slaves of death who fear to die,They are the cowards who strive againsttheir fate -And thus it ...
Pain, pain exalts me Into consciousness:I am awake! My jangled anguish rivesEach tense quick nerve pricked by unnum-bered knives,My only ...
THAT she may languish in her sumptuous flat,Ten thousand acres sweat with wool andwheat;That she may lunch, maids tend her ...
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