The House Delirious (Leon Gellert Poems)
Come in and tread thou quietlyWithin the duskiness.This twilight thou dost seeIs but the moment passing. Make no guessUpon these ...
Come in and tread thou quietlyWithin the duskiness.This twilight thou dost seeIs but the moment passing. Make no guessUpon these ...
The island sleeps,-but it has no delightFor em, to whom that sleep has been unkind.My thoughts are long of what ...
I met my love a-weeping,Weeping in the night-tide pale;Her head among the lily bloom,Weeping by an empty tomb-An unshut tomb.I ...
These there were, who lost their everything.Gave all! And left the earth a vaster sphereIn memories: a song or two ...
He totters round and dangles those odd shapesThat were his legs. His eyes are never dim.He brags about his fame ...
'At every cost,' they said, 'it must be done.'They told us in the early afternoon.We sit and wait the coming ...
With padded feet from out his own dark denComes smiling Lust, once fair and hard to please,But now long overworked with ...
What task is this that so unnerves me now?When pity should be dead, and has been dead.Unloose that sheet from ...
Oh Peace! The Peace I knew. I thought thee dead!And had not hoped again to see thy smile.I deemed thee ...
The ManHe lies forgotten 'neath the watching skies,the blood upon his bayonet scarlet bright;the red moon shining in his glazed ...
I saw a singer singing to a crowd,-Singing of laughing life,- and all the whileHe sang in tones so shrilly ...
"That just reminds me of a yarn," he said;And everybody turned to hear his tale.He had a thousand yarns inside ...
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