The Sword Of Pain (George Essex Evans Poems)
The Lights burn dim and make weird shadow-play,The white walls of the ward are changed to grey,Down the long aisle ...
The Lights burn dim and make weird shadow-play,The white walls of the ward are changed to grey,Down the long aisle ...
When first the Gods, whose Empire is eternal, In Time's deep chalice poured Life's sacred wine,Flashed all the crystal ...
In an age of Mammon and Greed, In an age of Humbug and ...
THE BOY went out from the ranges grim,And the breath of the mountains went with him;With a song in his ...
In sea and air, in leaf and stone, Where'er Truth's magic words are writ,Where thousands throng, or rapt and ...
O for a vision of the perfect light To shame the splendour of the morning star!O for a breath ...
Sing not of RestFor heart, or brain, or the strong soul's emotion Beneath the shadow of Eternal peace! ...
Methought the unknown God we seek in vain Grew weary of the evil He had wrought-The piteous litanies of ...
They left the vine-wreathed cottage and the mansion on the hill,The houses in the busy streets where life is never ...
I stood in the heart of the city street,I felt the throb of her pulses beat,The thunder of life on ...
NOW is there rest for heart and brainNo mandate calls to him again.The lips that voiced the People's willAre powerless ...
Bright skies of summer o'er the deep, And soft salt air along the land,The blue wave, lisping in its ...
No white cloud sails the lonely sky,Thro' the gaunt trees no breezes sigh,Thro' the lush grass no fall of feet; ...
His hat looks worn, and his coat-sleeves shine,As I see him step from his 'bus at nine;His boots are pieced ...
White Star of Womanhood, whose rays Thro' years of peace and years of stressShed wide o'er all thy people's ...
White faces turn to us again Sad eyes from out their veils of clay:Strength stricken low, and hopeless pain, ...
The roar and rush of life sweeps on;Still shines the sun as once it shone:Men reap and sow and live ...
O wilt Thou on the day when all is sifted, All heights of Heaven, all depths of Hell laid ...
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