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 (56 Poems)
The Path Of Dreams (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Beside the stream that silverly steals onTo swell the song of that far-sounding seaWhich breaks upon the utmost shore of ...
Clytie–The Sunflower (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
(To F. H.)In pale green twilight lands Under the seaHer rainbow palace stands, Irised and opaline; Agate and almondine,Corals and pearly shellsSwept from ...
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 ...
In Woodland Ways (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Out of the poignant glare, the shadeless heatOf summer noon, beseech thee follow meInto the dim, dream-haunted secrecyThe cool, green ...
Sartor Resartus (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Ah, God be merciful to him who seesThro' ermined pomp and pageantry of kings,Thro' regal mien and beauty's witcheriesThe poor, ...
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, ...
Spartacus (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
He stands storm-browed, imperial, chief Of all Rome's gladiators; brave Beyond all others; fearless in belief, A captive--but no slave.His brow is like ...
In The Dark Forest (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
The long gray twilight falls and deeper glooms Close round the graying wood that dimmer growsAs dies the Day's last yearning ...
“God Bless You, Dear” (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Dear patient face and placid brow, Dear lips that smiled despite of pain,Brave toil-worn hands, so helpful now, Sweet spirit free from ...
To One Who Sleeps (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
(Obiit, June 8th, 1894.)_Tho' storm and summer shine for long have shedOr blight or bloom above thy quiet bed,Tho' loneliness ...
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, ...
Circe (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
I.Where fair (Leigh Gordon Giltner)
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 ...
When Fades The Light (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
When fades the light along the western sky, When dies the last dim rose to subtlest gray,When darkling mere and mead ...
A Memory (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Strange that across the vast of varied years, Fraught with life's wonted alloy--mingled joy and pain--Sun-kissed with smiles or gloomed with ...
In The Play (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
In a painted "Forest of Arden," in the glare of the garish light,In doublet and hose, be-powdered and rouged, you ...
And Yet … (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Upon the meads where we were wont to stray,'Guiling with springtime hopes the winter hours,The Spring has smiled; yon slope ...
Ashes Of Roses (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Skies glooming overhead, Autumn winds sighing;Bare yonder garden bed, Flowers low lying.All their rich radiance fled,All their pale petals shed,Wan wraiths of ...
Afterbloom (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Gay was her garden as some gorgeous fabric Weft on an Orient loom,Star-set upon the sward quaint, old-time blossoms Wrought broidery of ...
Flower-Fancies (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Water-LiliesThey float ethereal, unearthly white Upon the bosom of the darkling mere,Raying the dusk with slumbrous silver light-- Eidolons of lost moons ...
Andromeda (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Bound ever to a great grey rock of Doom, Striving with futile hands to rive the chainOf woven fear, distrust 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, ...
The Dead Leader (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
After the waiting and the anguished weeping He lies at rest at last.How should we mourn him tranced in peaceful sleeping, His ...
Regret (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Shimmer of rose and pearl,Sheen on an opal sky; Day's crimson banners unfurl,Purple-pleached shadow-gleams die; Dawn flowers bourgeoning fair,Meads with the dawn-dews ...
Preluding (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Frail fronds of ferns uncurling,Blue iris flags unfurling,Pale showers of blossoms swirlingLike clouds of wind-blown snow;With fragile wildings playing,Like two ...
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 ...
A Winter Landscape (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
A mystic world mantled in white simarreArachne-spun with argent woof; her wedeStarred with strange crystals wrought from frozen spar,Sprent with ...