A Dead Letter (Henry Austin Dobson Poems)
I DREW it from its china tomb;- It came out feebly scented With some thin ghost of past perfume That ...
I DREW it from its china tomb;- It came out feebly scented With some thin ghost of past perfume That ...
'Tis an old dial, dark with many a stain; In summer crowned with drifting orchard bloom,Tricked in the autumn with the ...
YES; when the ways oppose- When the hard means rebel, Fairer the work out-grows,- More potent far the spell. O ...
Bards of the Future! you that come With striding march, and roll of drum, What will your newest challenge be To our prose-bound ...
Time goes, you say? Ah no!Alas, Time stays, we go;Or else, were this not so,What need to chain the hours,For ...
The Printer's is a happy lot:Alone of all professions,No fateful smudges ever blotHis earliest "impressions."The outgrowth of his youthful kenNo ...
Melek the sultan, tired and wan,Nodded at noon on the divan.Beside the fountain lingered nearJamil the bard, and the vizier ...
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