A Ballad Of Sin (George Sylvester Viereck Poems)
In dreams on a far-off shore I lay(Dreams that were full of dread),Where the purple clouds of a dying dayShadowed ...
In dreams on a far-off shore I lay(Dreams that were full of dread),Where the purple clouds of a dying dayShadowed ...
IO NINEVEH, thy realm is setUpon a base of rock and steelFrom where the under-rivers fretHigh up to where the ...
O little siren of the rose-white skin,Reared to strange music and to stranger sin,With scornful lips that move to no ...
Thy hands are like cool herbs that bring Balm to men's hearts, upon them laid; Thy lovely-petalled lips are madeAs any blossom ...
I lay beside you… on your lips the whileHovered, most strange… the mirage of a smile,Such as a minstrel lover ...
Foul night-birds brood in fearsome throngAbout the path that I must tread:Thou art not what I thought thee long,And oh, ...
IWithin a sultry desert land,Where neither flowers nor shadows are,Hid to the breast in shifting sandThere stands an image secular.Where ...
JINGLING bells and cracking whip,Laughter and jest on every lip! -Thou drew'st thy gorgeous mantle tight -But lo! I marked ...
THE mockery of thy lips adored,Thy lovely languid headEnwreathed with poppies redIs my loadstone:Because thou art cruel, therefore be my ...
My heart is like a city of the gay Reared on the ruins of a perished one Wherein my dead loves cower ...
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