The World Runs Round (Edward Rowland Sill Poems)
THE world runs round, And the world runs well; And at heaven's bound, Weaving what the hours shall tell Of ...
THE world runs round, And the world runs well; And at heaven's bound, Weaving what the hours shall tell Of ...
TWO craggy slopes, sheer down on either hand, Fall to a cleft, dark and confused with pines. Out of their ...
FAREWELL to such a world! Too long I press The crowded pavement with unwilling feet. Pity makes pride, and hate ...
A THUNDER-STORM of the olden days! The red sun' sinks in a sleepy haze; The sultry twilight, close and still, ...
FIVE mites of monads dwelt in a round drop That twinkled on a leaf by a pool in the sun. ...
WHAT am I glad will stay when I have passed From this dear valley of the world, and stand On ...
WERE there no crowns on earth, No evergreen to weave a hero's wreath, That he must pass beyond the gates ...
A TIDE of sun and song in beauty broke Against a bitter heart, where no voice woke Till thus it ...
A FOOLISH creature full of fears, He trembled for his fate, And stood aghast to feel the earth Swing round ...
THE star, so pure in saintly white, Deep in the solemn soul of night, With dreams of deathless beauty wed, ...
When I was yet but a child, the gardener gave me a tree, A little slim elm, to be set ...
Doubting Thomas and loving John, Behind the others walking on: "Tell me now, John, dare you ...
GROWING old, and looking back Wistfully along his track, I have heard him try to tell, With a smile a ...
DOWN in its crystal hollow Gleams the ebon well of ink: In the deepest drop lies lurking The thought all ...
Before the monstrous wrong he sets him down-- One man against a stone-walled city of sin. ...
I LAY awake and listened, ere the light Began to whiten at the window pane. The world was all asleep: ...
OVERHEAD the leaf-song, on the upland slope; Over that the azure, clean from base to cope; Belle the mare beside ...
BURY it, and sift Dust upon its light,- Death must not be left, To offend the sight. Cover the old ...
HIS wheel of logic whirled and spun all day; All day he held his system, grinding it Finer and finer, ...
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