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. ...
ITHE LOST MAGIC WHITE in her snowy stone, and cold, With azure veins and shining arms, Pygmalion doth his bride ...
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 ...
ONCE he cried to all the hills and waters And the tossing grain and tufted grasses: "Take my message-tell it ...
THE royal feast was done; the King Sought some new sport to banish care, And to his jester cried: "Sir ...
CRUEL and wild the battle: Great horses plunged and reared, And through dust-cloud and smoke-cloud, Blood-red with sunset's angry flush, ...
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 ...
UPON the barren, lonely hill We sat to watch the sinking sun; Below, the land grew dim and still, Whose ...
WHAT cared she for the free hearts? She would comfort The prisoned one: What recked I of the wanton other ...
GROWING old, and looking back Wistfully along his track, I have heard him try to tell, With a smile a ...
THE stars know a secret They do not tell; And morn brings a message Hidden well. There's a blush on ...
A SEA of shade; with hollow heights above, Where floats the redwood's airy roof away, Whose feathery lace the drowsy ...
DOWN in its crystal hollow Gleams the ebon well of ink: In the deepest drop lies lurking The thought all ...
MY tower was grimly builded, With many a bolt and bar, "And here," I thought, "I will keep my life ...
Before the monstrous wrong he sets him down-- One man against a stone-walled city of sin. ...
O SOUL, that somewhere art my very kin, From dusk and silence unto thee I call! I know not where ...
OFTEN when the night is come, With its quiet group at home, While they broider, knit, or sew, Read, or ...
DOES a man ever give up hope, I wonder, -- Face the grim fact, seeing it clear as day? When ...
This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:— There spread a cloud of dust along a plain; And underneath ...
IF I were very sure That all was over betwixt you and me- That, while this endless absence I endure ...
I LAY awake and listened, ere the light Began to whiten at the window pane. The world was all asleep: ...
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