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 ...
Must I, who walk alone,Come on it still,This Puck of plantsThe wise would do away with,The sunshine slantsTo play with,Our ...
For the Reunion of the Bates Family at Quincy, August 3, 1916FAR away on the sunny levelsWhere Kent lies drowsing ...
A five-year old in a Cape Cod village, twenty miles from the rail,Falmouth, Falmouth, loveliest Falmouth,Wearing her silvery, pearl-embroidered ocean ...
Never was there lovelier townThan our Falmouth by the sea.Tender curves of sky look downOn her grace of knoll and ...
(A medieval Spanish legend slanderously setting forth the utter unreason of woman.)ROMAQUIA sat and wept herLace mantilla full of tears.King ...
WHAT fragrant-footed comer Is stepping o'er my head?Behold, my queen! the Summer! Who deems her warriors dead.Now rise, ye knights of many ...
O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on ...
HEAVY hearts, your jubileeDroops about the Christmas Tree.Sudden sighs cut off the laughter,For a haunting pain comes afterAll your gallant ...
Archduke Francis Ferdinand, Austrian Heir-Apparent,Rideth through the Shadow Land, not a lone knight errant,But captain of a mighty train, millions ...
COLOSSAL orb of space,Sparkling with diamondOf countless star on star,All whirling with wild graceIn their enwoven danceIllimitably far,What lies beyondYour ...
I. In South AfricaOver the lonesome African plainThe stars look down, like eyes of the slain.A bumping ride across gullies ...
A stranger, schooled to gentle arts, He stept before the curious throng; His path into our waiting hearts Already paved by song. Full well ...
'T IS the blithest, bonniest weather for a bird to flirt a feather, For a bird to trill and warble, all ...
"The faieries gave him the propertie of the Thracian stone; for who toucheth it is exempted from griefe."The fairies to ...
"The priests distributed various coloured silken threads to weave for the veil of the sanctuary; and it fell to Mary's ...
OUR neighbor of the undefended bound,Friend of the hundred years of peace, our kin,Fellow adventurer on the enchanted groundOf the ...
O dear my Country, beautiful and dear,Love cloth not darken sight.God looketh through Love's eyes, whose vision clearBeholds more flaws ...
SHAKERAGS, cripples, gaunt and dazed,Prison-broken hosts on hosts,Torture-scarred and dungeon-crazed,Down the convict road they pour,More and more and myriads more,Terrible ...
Not the Prussian, the forsworn,By whose fury overborne,Martyred Belgium, you lieBruised with all injury.Through your peace red paths he clove,Burning, ...
IOH, what is Christ, that we should call on Him?Wasted Armenia, in her utter woe,Dies in the mocking desert, calling ...
Two centuries' winter storms have lashed the changing sands of Falmouth's shore,Deep-voiced, the winds, swift winged, wild, have echoed there ...
THE best of life, what is it but white moments?Those swift illuminations when we seeThe flying shadows on the fragrant ...
NOT yet hath Nature, lovely colorist,Bestirred her from creative dream to flingSoft flame upon the woods, -nay, not to dipOne ...
MULTITUDINOUS the cry beating on the smokeveiled sky.Since the first war-wrath burst on immortal Belgium,- Roar of cannon, shriek of ...
The first faint dawn was flushing up the skiesWhen, dreamland still bewildering mine eyes,I looked out to the oak that, ...
AT last, at last the CrescentFalls back before the Cross.Great spirits, incandescentWith longing and with loss,Gleam from the clouds, crusadersWho ...
NOT ours to clamor shame on you,Nor fling a bitter blame on you,Nor brand a cruel name on you,That evil ...
THESE August nights, hushed but for drowsy peepOf fledglings, tremble with a strange vibration,A sound too far for hearing, sullen, ...
Our fathers, in the years grown dim, reared slowly, wall by wallA holy dwelling-place for ...
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