Science, the Iconoclast (Kate Seymour Maclean Poems)
"Oh! spare dual idols of the past, Whose lips are dumb, whose eyes are dim; Truth's diadem is not for himWho comes, ...
"Oh! spare dual idols of the past, Whose lips are dumb, whose eyes are dim; Truth's diadem is not for himWho comes, ...
Dimly and dumbly under the ground,Groping the walls of their prison round,The roots of the aged and garrulous treesAre sending ...
Dread phantom, with pale finger on thy lips, Who dost unclose the awful doors for each, That ope but once, and are ...
Discrowned and desolate,And wandering with dim eyes and faded hair,Singing sad songs to comfort her despair, Grey Autumn meets her fate. Forsaken ...
Into the darkness and the deeps My thoughts have strayed, where silence dwells,Where the old world encrypted sleeps,— Myriads of forms, in ...
All night a slow soft rain,A shadowy stranger from a cloudy land,Sighing and sobbing, with unsteady hand Beat at the lattice, ...
A half a century of time, The mingled pain and blissThat make the history of life Between that day and this;Two lives ...
Under the bare brown rafters, In his garret bed he lay,And dreamed of the bright hereafters. And the merry morns of May.The ...
At last, dear love, the day is gone, The doors are barred—the lamps are lit,The couch beside the fire is drawn, The ...
Oh lapping waves!—oh gnawing waves!— That rest not day nor night,— I hear ye when the lightIs dim and awful in your ...
The Autumn hills are golden at the top, And rounded as a poet's silver rhyme;The mellow days are ruby ripe, that ...
The wind croons under the icicled eaves— Croons and mutters a wordless song,And the old elm chafes its skeleton leaves Against the ...
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