Guy Of The Temple (John Hay Poems)
Down the dim West slow fails the stricken sun,And from his hot face fades the crimson flushVeiled in death's herald-shadows ...
Down the dim West slow fails the stricken sun,And from his hot face fades the crimson flushVeiled in death's herald-shadows ...
I dreamed I was in fair Niphon.Amid tea-fields I journeyed on,Reclined in my jinrikishaw;Across the rolling plains I sawThe lordly ...
I tore this weed from the rank, dark soilWhere it grew in the monkish time,I trimmed it close and set ...
A Tale of Earnest Effort and Human PerfidyIt's all very well for preachingBut preachin' and practice don't gee:I've give the ...
Ef the way a man lights out of this world Helps fix his heft for the other sp'ere,I reckon my old ...
When by Jabbok the patriarch waited To learn on the morrow his doom,And his dubious spirit debated In darkness and silence and ...
The King was sick. His cheek was red,And his eye was clear and bright;He ate and drank with kingly zest,And ...
I.Wisely a woman prefers to a lover a man who neglects her.This one may love her some day, some day ...
Wall, no! I can't tell whar he lives, Becase he don't live, you see;Leastways, he's got out of the habit Of livin' ...
On the bluff of the Little Big-Horn,At the close of a woful day,Custer and his Three HundredIn death and silence ...
Saloman looked from his donjon bars,Where the Danube clamors through sedge and sand,And he cursed with a curse his revolting ...
The darkest, strangest mysteryI ever read, or heern, or see,Is 'long of a drink at Taggart's Hall,-- Tom Taggart's of Gilgal.I've ...
He stood before the Sanhedrim;The scowling rabbis gazed at him.He recked not of their praise or blame;There was no fear, ...
I.Land of unconquered Pelayo! land of the Cid Campeador!Sea-girdled mother of men! Spain, name of glory and power;Cradle of world-grasping ...
A Squad of regular infantryIn the Commune's closing days,Had captured a crowd of rebelsBy the wall of Pere-la-Chaise.There were desperate ...
Out of the Latin Quarter I came to the lofty doorWhere the two marble Sphinxes guard The Pavilion de Flore.Two Cockneys stood ...
What man is there so bold that he should say"Thus, and thus only, would I have the sea"?For whether lying ...
Daily walked the fair and lovelySultan's daughter in the twilight,--In the twilight by the fountain,Where the sparkling waters plash.Daily stood ...
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