Roses And Rue (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
I.A swift thought flashed to my mind that dayWhen I first saw you, regally tall'Mid a throng of pigmies--a very ...
Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems on Love (13 Poems)
Carmen (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Night in Seville, and the twinkle Of stars in the far azure set,The mandolin's torturing tinkle, The click of the castanet!Music and ...
A Challenge (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
To have lived, to have loved, to have triumphed!--what more can the world bestow?I stand at the close of the conflict, ...
In Bondage (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
What can it profit a man tho' he have the soul of a godSunk in the form of a beast, ...
When Love Passed By (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
I dreamt of love in the golden gloryOf youth unshadowed by cloud or care;Steeped in the love-lore of song and ...
Insatiate (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
What though she lieth mute on yonder hill? Though ivy green and shadowy eglatere Have held in tender fold through many a ...
The Heights Of Silence (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
(Transcribed from "The Choir Invisible.")Above the valleys, peopled, fair and warm, Rise the bleak, silent uplands where abideWraiths of lost loves, ...
Requital (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
What tho' you loved me once? Man's love at best Is but a mood--the fancy of an hour,You held all faith ...
To A. M. M. (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
She is so shy, this little love of mine, So pale and pure, almost I fear to speakThe love that thrills ...
Loveless (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
As some poor starveling at a palace gate Sees curtained gleams from banquet-litten halls,Hears song out-ringing from the festal walls, Scents viands ...
Illumed (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Like to a little child, whose straying feet,Tracking the fox-fire's guiling glint and gleam,Have wandered far afield by marsh and ...
The Master-Player (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Mute was the mighty organ. None might breakThe silence that had thralled it since was stilledThe master-hand beneath whose touch ...
To E. P. B. (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Imperial as that famed Elizabeth Before whose feet a knight his cloak cast down--A sovereign--altho' thine only crown Love's roses 'twine for ...