Out Of The East (John Freeman Poems)
When man first walked upright and soberly Reflecting as he paced to and fro,And no more swinging from wide tree to ...
When man first walked upright and soberly Reflecting as he paced to and fro,And no more swinging from wide tree to ...
Hear me, O beeches! YouThat have with ageless anguish slowly risenFrom earth's still secret prisonInto the ampler prison of aery ...
IThen first I knew, seeing that bent grey head,How England honours all her thousand dead.Then first I knew how faith ...
In thin clear light unshadowed shapes go bySmall on green fields beneath the hueless sky.They do not stay for question, ...
ITo Thee, Most Holy, Most Obscure, light-hidden,Shedding light in the darkness of the mindAs gold beams wake the air to ...
When I had dreamed and dreamed what woman's beauty was,And how that beauty seen from unseen surely flowed,I turned and ...
From that warm height and pure, The peak undreamed of out of heavy air Rising to heaven more strange and rare;From that ...
Is it because Spring now is comeThat my heart leaps in its bed of dust?Is it with sorrow or strange ...
I have found happiness who looked not for it. There was a green fresh hedge, And willows by the river side, And whistling ...
Falls from her heaven the Moon, and stars sink burning Into the sea where blackness rims the sea, Silently quenched. Faint light that ...
So! the fierce acid licks the silver clean,Unwonted plain the superscription's seenRound the cleared head; the metal, virgin-bright,Shines a mild ...
For so long and so long had I forgot, Serenely busiedWith thousand things; at whiles desire grew hot And my soul dizziedWith ...
Bring your beauty, bring your laughter, bring even your fears,Bring the grief that is, the joy that was in other ...
That you might happier be than all the rest,Than I who have been happy loving you,Of all the innocent even ...
Clear from the deep sky pours the moonHer silver on the heavy dark;The small stars blink.Against the moon the maple ...
When first Love came, then was I but a boySwept with delirium of undreamt joy.Now Love comes to a man ...
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