Through (Louisa Sarah Bevington Poems)
A VISION OF VICTORY.I.LO! one whose back was sunward, caught the eyeOf one who faced some horror in the sky.With ...
A VISION OF VICTORY.I.LO! one whose back was sunward, caught the eyeOf one who faced some horror in the sky.With ...
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 ...
THERE goes a wandering soul in desert places;(Good Lord, deliver!)About its way lie dumb, with livid faces,Slain virtures and slain ...
I.SEE where the man wakes late from his dreaming,Late in the night from the sleep that has been;See where regret ...
(SIX SONNETS.)I.SOUL, who would'st prove and know thyself for strong,Soul, who hast not a tyrant sin beside,Masked at thine elbow ...
Now this is very serious, and should be understoodHere is a moral being that is influenced by food!For everything I ...
O the sacred generations That have lived, and failed, and died!And for our sakesoursthe freed ones, Found their liberties denied!Oh, the helpless ...
LONG years--you say--you had a quest,You sought a blossom fine and sweetAnd perfect, that your soul might greetTo win and ...
FULL of songs he woke one morning,Every song a weighty wonderHolding universal beingNewly dressed in words of thunder."Men shall hear ...
Dogmadealer, talking treason,Spurning truth, perverting reasonIn and out of folly's season Year by yearOh, a plague on all the twaddleIn your ...
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 SONG.UP the dewy slopes of morningFollow me;Every smoky spy-glass scorning,Look and see, look and seeHow the simple sun is ...
How have you managed it? bright busy bee!You are all of you useful, yet each of you free.What man only ...
AN ESSAY IN COUPLETS.WHAT blesses yet is difficult,This--goodness: worship, the result.What man doth worship man doth love,And what he loveth ...
TILL the mist passes, and ye can descryWhy hearts for ages loved the love-shed bloodOf a pure Christ, and praised ...
Comrades! the end of the world's at hand! Our round earth planet? Ah, no;The planet shall roll, and the great sun ...
THERE are sea and sky about me, And yet nothing sense can mark;For a mist fills all the midnight Adding blindness to ...
Ah, yes! You must meet it, and brave it; Too laggardtoo purblind to save it;Who recks of your doubting and fearing Phrasebound ...
YOU ask me where love fails me?--what I hate?I cannot blame, for all, I hold, is fate;Yet there are hateful, ...
NOW are the days of greyness and of gloom; Now are the heavens expressionless and sad: Crisp winter has departed, yet the ...
Oh! oh! the delight of beholding delight!The thing that should be if the world went rightScope for all fitness and ...
GREY the sky, and growing dimmer, And the twilight lulls the sea ;Half in vagueness, half in glimmer, Nature shrouds her mystery.What ...
"Dreamers?" Ah, no! else he was a dreamer, Our crucified brother of long, long ago;Arrested, and jeered at; "seditious;" "blasphemer;" And legally ...
Ay, a price! What price? Ye saved ones of these later ages, Ye few who have learnt to be free, and ...
PURPLE headland over yonder, Fleecy, sun-extinguished moon,I am here alone, and ponder On the theme of Afternoon.Past has made a groove for ...
A TEAR welled up from a poet heartAnd fell on a rose;Lay there, bitter, and made it smart,--The red, red ...
DEAR, winding glens of Merle Wood! deep in flowers,That speak the mood of peaceful, patient hours,When human tenderness for nature's ...
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