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 ...
In an age of Mammon and Greed, In an age of Humbug and ...
Now that the gods are dead-where shall we find us a god?Myths of the Greek Olympus have sunk in the ...
THE BOY went out from the ranges grim,And the breath of the mountains went with him;With a song in his ...
Free is the wind that lashes into foamThe fortress waves that gird the Sea-King's homeAnd free the war-worn Flag that ...
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 ...
In sea and air, in leaf and stone, Where'er Truth's magic words are writ,Where thousands throng, or rapt and ...
Darkrose her shore in seas of amethyst By tropic breezes kissed,A summer land ...
Prince of the race whose Empire is the Sea, We welcome ...
There is scarlet on his forehead, There are scars across his face,'Tis the bloody dew ...
Sing not of RestFor heart, or brain, or the strong soul's emotion Beneath the shadow of Eternal peace! ...
Whisper, O wings of the wind! Sing me your song, O sea!Grey is the weary world, and grey is the ...
I stood in the heart of the city street,I felt the throb of her pulses beat,The thunder of life on ...
'TIS a green isle set in a silver water, A fairy isle where the shamrock grows.Land of Legend, the ...
Earth's mightiest isle. She stands alone.The wide seas wash around Her throne,Crowned by the red sun as his own. This ...
Still the white stars burn overhead, The green earth swings upon her way:Where are the voices of the dead, ...
Around and beneath, the dull grey mist and the sullen roar of the sea,Scant footing-place on the sheer cliffs face-with ...
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 ...
The roar and rush of life sweeps on;Still shines the sun as once it shone:Men reap and sow and live ...
Friend, you have wealth and power,Men go and come at your call,Yours are the whims of the hour-What have you ...
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