In A Breton Cemetery (Ernest Dowson Poem)
They sleep well here, These fisher-folk who passed their anxious days In fierce Atlantic ways; And found not there, Beneath ...
They sleep well here, These fisher-folk who passed their anxious days In fierce Atlantic ways; And found not there, Beneath ...
Calm, sad, secure; behind high convent walls, These watch the sacred lamp, these watch and pray: And it is one ...
Erewhile, before the world was old, When violets grew and celandine, In Cupid's train we were enrolled: Erewhile! Your little ...
With delicate, mad hands, behind his sordid bars, Surely he hath his posies, which they tear and twine; Those scentless ...
Beyond the pale of memory, In some mysterious dusky grove; A place of shadows utterly, Where never coos the turtle-dove, ...
They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, Love and desire and hate: I think they have no portion ...
All that I had I brought, Little enough I know; A poor rhyme roughly wrought, A rose to match thy ...
In your mother's apple-orchard, Just a year ago, last spring: Do you remember, Yvonne! The dear trees lavishing Rain of ...
When I am old, And sadly steal apart, Into the dark and cold, Friend of my heart! Remember, if you ...
Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed Upon my ...
Sleep! Cast thy canopy Over this sleeper's brain, Dim grow his memory, When he wake again. Love stays a summer ...
What is Love? Is it a folly, Is it mirth, or melancholy? Joys above, Are there many, or not any? ...
Let us go hence: the night is now at hand; The day is overworn, the birds all flown; And we ...
I watched the glory of her childhood change, Half-sorrowful to find the child I knew, (Loved long ago in lily-time), ...
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