Convict Once – Part Second. (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
I.1EVEN as water to him who thirsts wayfaring, dust-dry and burning,After sore heat and long stumbling in courses with never ...
I.1EVEN as water to him who thirsts wayfaring, dust-dry and burning,After sore heat and long stumbling in courses with never ...
THE scene is the Southern Hemisphere;The time - oh, any time of the yearWill do as well as another; say ...
Come, take the tenner, doctor . . . yes, I know the bill says "five,"But it ain't as if you'd ...
[It is stated that a shepherd, who had for many years grazed his flocks ina district in which a rich ...
Lo by the "humpy" door a smockless Venus!Unblushing bronze, she shrinks not, having seen us,Though there is nought but short ...
We cried, " How long ! " We sighed, " Not yet; "And still with faces dawnward set" Prepare the ...
Dedicated by special permission to Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria.We cried, "How long!" We sighed, "Not yet;"And still with ...
"All thoughts, all passions, all delights,Whatever stirs this mortal frame,"Are but the legacies of apes,With interest on the same.How oft ...
Knowest thou now, O Love! Oh pure from the death of thy summer of sweetness!Seest thou now, O new-born Delight ...
Through what strange winding ways of circumstance,Through what conspiracies of time and chance,By what long chain of hands, from his ...
SHE is not yet, but he whose ear Thrills to that finer atmosphere Where footfalls of appointed things, Reverberant of ...
There is an orb that mocked the lore of sagesLong time with mystery of strange unrest;The steadfast law that rounds ...
Upon the orient utmost of the land,Enfranchised of the world, alone, and free,I stood; before me, and on either hand,The ...
De mortuis nil ni-Si bonum: R.I.P.:-No more upbraid him:-Nay, rather plead his cause,For Ben exactly wasWhat Nature made him.Not radically ...
(Written in aid of the Children's Hospital.)MATTHEW XXV. 40."Inasmuch as ye gave ear unto the sighingOf the least of these ...
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