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 ...
GOD dreaming in his star-enshrouded skyBethought himself of me, so even IWho was till then as nothing, leapt to life ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
I SAW him where the doomed, a thickening flood,Jostled the brazen Gates of Heaven. HecriedWith dry-parched throat and lips beslimed ...
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 ...
THROUGH the stench and smoke of pipe andstale cigar -Black coats, black hats, and raucous tones,bleared eyes.Quick, past them - ...
THAT we may blur remembrance, we existBy passion, dread, doubt, hatred, anddesire,Snared to bewildering time until we tire,Collapse, and fail; ...
LET Woman be his creed who would lamentThis modern world of sensual luxury It is her world! Like waves nursed ...
SHE lies raped from her bright sarcophagus,Denuded, stripped, her tomb a thoroughfare;Rome was not when she breathed, and shelies there:For ...
ROSES to twine about her hair,Roses to nestle on her breast,To breathe my love, that I may shareWith her very ...
SWART hill and shrunken valley, long gray cloudsSmoke all into the sunset, interlacedWith sheen of gold and crimson; vapour shroudsDroop ...
I AND the right, and naught beside,The distant ocean's weary moan,The murmur of the ebbing tideReplying to the ocean sob;This, ...
Let us drink, drink all night long,Revel, sing, carouse, and dance,Mingling tale and jest and song;Not one joy is left ...
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