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 ...
Weary was I of Earth. My body lay, Its fires turned down and slaked to faintest heat.My soul went ...
When first the Gods, whose Empire is eternal, In Time's deep chalice poured Life's sacred wine,Flashed all the crystal ...
Not as the songs of other landsHer song shall be,Where dim her purple shore-line standsAbove the sea!As erst she stood, ...
Where is God, whilst all around us sounds the jarring of the wheels,When the cry of human anguish starwards thro' ...
SPRINGAcross the street, across the grass,Across my life I watch her pass.No pure star on a dusky heightHath eyes more ...
Ebbs and flows the restless river In the city streetWhere the great nerve centres quiver, Where the pulses ...
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 ...
No white cloud sails the lonely sky,Thro' the gaunt trees no breezes sigh,Thro' the lush grass no fall of feet; ...
White faces turn to us again Sad eyes from out their veils of clay:Strength stricken low, and hopeless pain, ...
Bearing two crystal goblets in her hands To a philosopher an Angel came:One wine shone clear as water o'er ...
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