The Pessimist (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
I WANDERED yesternight 'twixt sleep and sleepOn the wild outmost coast of consciousness,Where beat forever waves of paradox,Fringing abysmal seas ...
I WANDERED yesternight 'twixt sleep and sleepOn the wild outmost coast of consciousness,Where beat forever waves of paradox,Fringing abysmal seas ...
SWEET were the faiths our wishes bred; cruel is faithless fate;All things show good or evil as we love them ...
I.SEE where the man wakes late from his dreaming,Late in the night from the sleep that has been;See where regret ...
FULL of songs he woke one morning,Every song a weighty wonderHolding universal beingNewly dressed in words of thunder."Men shall hear ...
WHAT of our time?(Oracle.)A fog and a blur,A hum and a whirr,And large mellow lights that are slowly dawning;Lo! elements ...
(A Tale for the Times.)He had closed his volume of theorie;He rose from his restful reverie"The world must be saved ...
O YE joys that none have chanced on!O ye goals that none have sought!O ye gulfs of vacant etherWhere no ...
A SWEET white flower peepedUp from a glade,Laughingly tossed its bellTo the breeze that played,Shrinkingly drooped and fell;--Why did it ...
HOW do I know you good?--my dear, my dear,How do I know?Because, at thought of you the bonds fall offThat ...
MY love, despise not love in your high thought;For see what weakness finds the power to doHere in my failing ...
OH, when have after-days or evenings broughtForgiveness home to penitence downcast?Oh, when has trust been perfect,--honour fast,--But fault or fate ...
WHEN the great universe hung nebulousBetwixt the unprevented and the need,Was it foreseen that you and I should be?--Was it ...
OUR oneness is the wrestlers', fierce and close,Thrusting and thrust;One life in dual effort for one prize,--We fight, and must;For ...
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