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 ...
AT last, at last the CrescentFalls back before the Cross.Great spirits, incandescentWith longing and with loss,Gleam from the clouds, crusadersWho ...
Our fathers, in the years grown dim, reared slowly, wall by wallA holy dwelling-place for ...
OVER the murmurous choral of dim wavesThe constellations glow against the softEthereal dusk, -forever fair, aloft,Serene, while man climbs painfully ...
WHAT sudden voice peals to the Caucasus,To Finland and the bitter Caspian,To those Siberian prisons whither manShall seek as to ...
YOUNG, the naked stoker who wentMad with the fires and leapt to the sea,Boyhood still in the voice that sentOne ...
Bodies glad, erect,Beautiful with youth,Life's elect,Nature's truth,Marching host on host,Those bright, unblemished ones,Manhood's boast,Feed them to the guns.Hearts and brains ...
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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