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 ...
I.1IT was a fever, they tell me: to me 'twas a sleep and a waking;Yet not a sleep without dreams: ...
THE scene is the Southern Hemisphere;The time - oh, any time of the yearWill do as well as another; say ...
A CHRISTMAS STORY.1IT was the time when geese despond,And turkeys make their wills;The time when Christians, to a man,Forgive each ...
GOD speaks by silence. Voice-dividing man,Who cannot triumph but he saith, Aha -Who cannot suffer without Woe is me -Who, ...
"DEAR RICHARD, come at once;" - so ran her letter;The letter of a married female friend:"She likes you both, and ...
IT little profits that, an idle man,On this worn arch, in sight of wasted halls,I mope, a solitary pelican,And glower ...
1FAST flew the hours. We may not tellOf William's weary quest,How round the outskirts of the townHe roamed like one ...
Brown was weeping; likewise cursing; and with amplitude of reason;For a letter had been handed him that very afternoonWhich proved ...
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 ...
As I sit beside my little study window, looking downFrom the heights of contemplation (attic front) upon the town(Attic front, ...
Said the Preacher "All is Vanity!"-appending as a reasonThat the things we find our pleasure in are bound to pass ...
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 ...
THEY who say the bush is dull are not so very far astray,For this eucalyptic cloisterdom is anything but gay;But ...
KING AHASUERUS in his palace at Shu-Sh(James Brunton Stephens)
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 ...
Yes, I got another Johnny; but he was to Number OneAs a Satyr to Hyperion, as a rushlight to a ...
I.1"I HAVE no heart and no time to go forth to the world, there to choose meOne who may be ...
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 ...
What happier haunt could the gods allotFor loftiest musing to sage or bard?-Yet I would that this upper verandah did ...
Not understood, we move along asunder; Our paths grow wider as the seasons creepAlong the years; we marvel and we wonder Why ...
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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