Phantoms All (Harriet Prescott Spofford Poems)
COME, all you sailors of the southern waters, You apparitions of the Spanish main,Who dyed the jewelled depths blood-red with slaughters, You ...
COME, all you sailors of the southern waters, You apparitions of the Spanish main,Who dyed the jewelled depths blood-red with slaughters, You ...
What memory fired her pallid face, What passion stirred her blood,What tide of sorrow and desire Poured its forgotten floodUpon a heart ...
WHEN stars pursue their solemn flight,Oft in the middle of the night,A strain of music visits me,Hushed in a moment ...
SAID the archangels, moving in their glory, Seeing the suns bend out along their courses, Seeing the earth swim up in vernal ...
Love, when all the years are silent, vanished quite and laid to rest,When you and I are sleeping, folded breathless ...
COULDST thou, Great Fairy, give to meThe instant's wish, that I might seeOf all the earth's that one dear sightKnown ...
WILD stream the clouds, and the fresh wind is singing,Red is the dawn, and the world white with rime,-Music, O ...
In the summer even,While yet the dew was hoar,I went plucking purple pansies,Till my love should come to shore.The fishing-lights ...
WHAT 'S the brightness of a brow? What 's a mouth of pearls and corals?Beauty vanishes like a vapor, Preach the men ...
IT was nothing but a rose I gave her,- Nothing but a roseAny wind might rob of half its savor, Any wind ...
Something to live for came to the place,Something to die for maybe,Something to give even sorrow a grace,And yet it ...
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