The Voice of the Sea (George William Russell Poems)
THE SEA was hoary, hoary, Beating on rock and cave: The winds were white and weeping With foam dust of ...
THE SEA was hoary, hoary, Beating on rock and cave: The winds were white and weeping With foam dust of ...
THROUGH the blue shadowy valley I hastened in a dream: Flower rich the night, flower soft the air, a blue ...
THE GREY road whereupon we trod became as holy ground: The eve was all one voice that breathed its message ...
THE CHILDREN were shouting together And racing along the sands, A glimmer of dancing shadows, A dovelike flutter of hands. ...
THOSE delicate wanderers, The wind, the star, the cloud, Ever before mine eyes, As to an altar bowed, Light and ...
ITS edges foamed with amethyst and rose, Withers once more the old blue flower of day: There where the ether ...
BY many a dream of God and man my thoughts in shining flocks were led: But as I went through ...
YOU and I have found the secret way, None can bar our love or say us nay: All the world ...
WHEN mine hour is come Let no teardrop fall And no darkness hover Round me where I lie. Let the ...
THE SKIES from black to pearly grey Had veered without a star or sun; Only a burning opal ray Fell ...
THE TWILIGHT fleeted away in pearl on the stream, And night, like a diamond done, stood still in our dream. ...
WHO gave thee such a ruby flaming heart And such a pure cold spirit? Side by side I know these ...
WHEN the unquiet hours depart And far away their tumults cease, Within the twilight of the heart We bathe in ...
THE SWEETEST song was ever sung May soothe you but a little while: The gayest music ever rung Shall yield ...
A DIAMOND glow of winter o'er the world: Amid the chilly halo nigh the west Flickers a phantom violet bloom ...
LIKE winds or waters were her ways: The flowing tides, the airy streams, Are troubled not by any dreams; They ...
I BEGIN through the grass once again to be bound to the Lord; I can see, through a face that ...
WHEN the breath of twilight blows to flame the misty skies, All its vaporous sapphire, violet glow and silver gleam ...
LIGHTEST of dancers, with no thought Thy glimmering feet beat on my heart, Gayest of singers, with no care Waking ...
THE WHILE my mad brain whirled around She only looked with eyes elate Immortal love at me. I found How ...
WITHIN the iron cities One walked unknown for years, In his heart the pity of pities That grew for human ...
A SHAFT of fire that falls like dew, And melts and maddens all my blood, From out thy spirit flashes ...
WHAT miracle was it that made this grey Rathgar Seem holy earth, a leaping-place from star to star? I know ...
WHILE the yellow constellations shine with pale and tender glory, In the lilac-scented stillness let us listen to earth's story. ...
YOUR paths were all unknown to us: We were so far away from you: We mixed in thought your spirit ...
AT dusk the window panes grew grey; The wet world vanished in the gloom; The dim and silver end of ...
WHEN the soul sought refuge in the place of rest, Overborne by strife and pain beyond control, From some secret ...
OUT of the dusky chamber of the brain Flows the imperial will through dream on dream: The fires of life ...
COME earth's little children pit-pat from their burrows on the hill; Hangs within the gloom its weary head the shining ...
THE CHILDREN awoke in their dreaming While earth lay dewy and still: They followed the rill in its gleaming To ...
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