The Death Of Olaf Tryggvision (Katharine Lee Bates Poems)
IBLUE as blossom of the myrtleSmiled the steadfast eyes of OlafOn the host of ships that harriedHis enraged, gold-glittering Dragon,Snared ...
IBLUE as blossom of the myrtleSmiled the steadfast eyes of OlafOn the host of ships that harriedHis enraged, gold-glittering Dragon,Snared ...
A five-year old in a Cape Cod village, twenty miles from the rail,Falmouth, Falmouth, loveliest Falmouth,Wearing her silvery, pearl-embroidered ocean ...
MULTITUDINOUS the cry beating on the smokeveiled sky.Since the first war-wrath burst on immortal Belgium,- Roar of cannon, shriek of ...
WHEN the Millennium comesOnly the kings will fight,While the princes beat the drums,And the queens in aprons white,Arnica bottle in ...
SHRUNKEN little bodies, pallid baby faces,Eyes of staring terror, innocence defiled,Tiny bones that strew the sand of silent places,- This ...
GOD made a day of blue and gold,Sweet as a violet,As merry as a marigold;It may be shining yetIn some ...
HONOR to him whose very blood remembersThe old, enchanted dream-song of the Rhine,Although his house of life. is fair with ...
THIS tattered catechism weaves a spell,Invoking from the Long Ago a childWho deemed her fledgling soul so sin-defiledShe practised with ...
YOUNG, the naked stoker who wentMad with the fires and leapt to the sea,Boyhood still in the voice that sentOne ...
"MOTHER! Mother!" he called as he fellIn the horror thereOf a bursting shellThat strewed red flesh on the air.Far away ...
THE wolf of want is howlingAt doors no angel keeps.Young Mary smiled on her Holy Child,But many a mother weeps.The ...
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