Dust (George William Russell Poems)
I HEARD them in their sadness say, "The earth rebukes the thought of God; We are but embers wrapped in ...
I HEARD them in their sadness say, "The earth rebukes the thought of God; We are but embers wrapped in ...
BEARDED with dewy grass the mountains thrust Their blackness high into the still grey light, Deepening to blue: far up ...
I WOULD not have the love of lips and eyes, The ancient ways of love: But in my heart I ...
WHERE are now the dreams divine, Fires that lit the dawning soul, As the ruddy colours shine Through an opal ...
THEY call us aliens, we are told, Because our wayward visions stray From that dim banner they unfold, The dreams ...
COULD you not in silence borrow Strength to go from us ungrieving? All these hours of loving sorrow Only make ...
I WOULD I could weave in The colour, the wonder, The song I conceive in My heart while I ponder, ...
A FRIENDLY mountain I know; As I lie on the green slope there It sets my heart in a glow ...
ONE thing in all things have I seen: One thought has haunted earth and air: Clangour and silence both have ...
HOW came this pigmy rabble spun, After the gods and kings of old, Upon a tapestry begun With threads of ...
I THOUGHT, beloved, to have brought to you A gift of quietness and ease and peace, Cooling your brow as ...
I FAIN would leave the tender songs I sang to you of old, Thinking the oft-sung beauty wrongs The magic ...
OUR true hearts are forever lonely: A wistfulness is in our thought: Our lights are like the dawns which only ...
YOUR paths were all unknown to us: We were so far away from you: We mixed in thought your spirit ...
I GO down from the hills half in gladness, and half with a pain I depart, Where the Mother with ...
YOU remember, dear, together Two children, you and I, Sat once in the autumn weather, Watching the autumn sky. There ...
COME earth's little children pit-pat from their burrows on the hill; Hangs within the gloom its weary head the shining ...
WHERE we sat at dawn together, while the star-rich heavens shifted, We were weaving dreams in silence, suddenly the veil ...
WE air tired who follow after Phantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter Stain our hearts ...
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