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 ...
A hundred times the bells of Brown Have rung to sleep the idle summers,And still to-day clangs clamoring down A greeting to ...
I tore this weed from the rank, dark soilWhere it grew in the monkish time,I trimmed it close and set ...
Saloman looked from his donjon bars,Where the Danube clamors through sedge and sand,And he cursed with a curse his revolting ...
I pray you, pardon me, Elsie, And smile that frown awayThat dims the light of your lovely face As a thunder-cloud the ...
A sentinel angel sitting high in gloryHeard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory:"Have mercy, mighty angel, hear my story!"I ...
I wandered through a careless world Deceived when not deceiving,And never gave an idle heart The rapture of believing.The smiles, the sighs, ...
O grandly flowing River!O silver-gliding River!Thy springing willows shiver In the sunset as of old;They shiver in the silenceOf the willow-whitened ...
Roll on, O shining sun, To the far seas,Bring down, ye shades of eve, The soft, salt breeze!Shine out, O stars, and ...
Each shining light above us Has its own peculiar grace;But every light of heaven Is in my darling's face.For it is like ...
When violets were springing And sunshine filled the day,And happy birds were singing The praises of the May,A word came to me, ...
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