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Hagar (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)

To have known Heaven and then to walk in Hell!Is it not hell to know his face no more,Supplanted, spurned ...

Sonnet (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)

(To Charles J. O'Malley.)As when above orchestral undertone, The plaining wail of muted violin, The hushed ob(Leigh Gordon Giltner)

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 ...

Hedonism (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)

Since we must sleep the endless Sleep at last,Since Life's grim juggernaut 'neath ruthless wheelsCrushes the heart; since Age like ...

In Fortune’s Twilight (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)

The old house totters 'neath its weight of years,Bowed, like the form of him who shelters there,Old, friendless, lone--save for ...

To Bliss Carman (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)

Great hearted brother to the wilderness, Comrade of Wind and Sea! InterpreterOf nomad Nature! Ere the quick'ning stir Of Spring-sap thrills the ...

An Autumn Song (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)

The dim sun slips adown the skyThat dies from gold to gray;The homing birds that Southward flyTo my heart's hailing ...

To A Singer (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)

Beneath thy Midas touch life's sullen graysAre thrilled to sudden gold; as some far gleamFrom wings of Helios athwart thy ...

Euthumism (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)

If in the spirit glows no spark divine;If soulless dust return to dust again;If, after life, but death and dark ...

Love And Death (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)

Ever athwart Life's sunlit, upland waysFalleth the shadow of impending Death,And still Life's flowers beneath his blighting breathTo ashes wither, ...

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 ...

Through The Dark (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)

Last night they laid me in my winding sheet, Set burning tapers at my feet and head,Decked me with wan white ...

Blossom Of Brine (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)

Morn! and a white sail wingingOver the sunlit waves;A song on the breezes ringingUp from the coral cavesWhere sea-nymphs, white ...

Shylock (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)

Cold craft and avarice look from out his eyes,His face with evil passion marred and seamed,Looks frowningly upon a Christian ...

Roses (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)

"Where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?"--Rub(Leigh Gordon Giltner)

Antithesis (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)

The poet wrought a song of sadness, fraught With all the pain the world's sad heart hath proved;He sang of doubt, ...

To Margaret (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)

Maiden of varying mood,Thalia thou hast wooed, Thespis thereafter,Till 'neath thy lyric swayEach heart must tribute pay-- Tears blent with laughter.So in ...