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 ...
Now that the gods are dead-where shall we find us a god?Myths of the Greek Olympus have sunk in the ...
IT WAS on the fourth of August, as five hundred of us layIn the camp at Eland's River, came a ...
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' ...
There is scarlet on his forehead, There are scars across his face,'Tis the bloody dew ...
The willows sweep the water, and the rushes lean a-down, And I see the river shining far away,With a ...
Here in the silence cometh unto me A song that is not mine,With ...
Sing not of RestFor heart, or brain, or the strong soul's emotion Beneath the shadow of Eternal peace! ...
Nature feels the touch of noon; Not a rustle stirs the grass;Not a shadow flecks the sky,Save the brown hawk ...
I stood in the heart of the city street,I felt the throb of her pulses beat,The thunder of life on ...
Chequered with sunshine and shade-the umbrage of white clouds in motion-Rearing their summits to Heaven, broken like waves on their ...
Bright skies of summer o'er the deep, And soft salt air along the land,The blue wave, lisping in its ...
NOW is there rest for heart and brainNo mandate calls to him again.The lips that voiced the People's willAre powerless ...
WIDE are the plains-the plains that stretch to the west An ocean of trackless waste, untrodden and rude,Where an ...
God gave him gifts: nor gave in vainThe great heart and the master-brainTo dream, to battle, to attain, ...
White Star of Womanhood, whose rays Thro' years of peace and years of stressShed wide o'er all thy people's ...
The dull earth swung in silence o'er, A dreamless world, a dreary star,Until the doves of Venus bore ...
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