Before Sunrise (Maurice Thompson Poems)
Mid foliage green and gold,And bloom-sprays manifold,I feelThe fragrance of eternal freshness stealForth from the rising day,And far away,Like the ...
Mid foliage green and gold,And bloom-sprays manifold,I feelThe fragrance of eternal freshness stealForth from the rising day,And far away,Like the ...
Oh,How I long to go,On a seaward-blowing breeze,To the garden of the seas—To brave King Arthur's land,To that fair island ...
You ask me whyI long to flyOut from your palace to the dreamy woodsAnd the summer solitudes,Why I pineIn this ...
IIt was off the coast of the Terre aux Boeufs(And the breeze was brisk and the sea was rough)That Gaspard ...
II was a rebel, if you please,A reckless fighter to the last,Nor do I fall upon my kneesAnd ask forgiveness ...
Is all discovery made?Is the hand of Conquest stayed?Are all the heroes dead, all epics told?Is Fame's grand tower no ...
I"Soulless," they said, but I was blindTo all things save the hazel deeps,Unruffled by a gust of wind,Wherein thy wondrous ...
A migrant song-bird I,Out of the blue, between the sea and the sky,Landward blown on bright, untiring wings;Out of the ...
O subtle, musky, slumbrous clime!O swart, hot land of pine and palm,Of fig, peach, guava, orange, lime,And terebinth and tropic ...
What bird is that, with voice so sweet,Sings to the sun from yonder tree?What girl is that so slim and ...
I lay close down beside the river,My bow well strung, well filled my quiver,The god that dwells among the reedsSang ...
The legend set upon our shieldBrims with grand meaning: All in one,Hearts welded, souls together runAt white heat on the ...
What of this Hour that passesWith a shimmer of gold and blue?O Love, through your crystal glassesWhat seems this hour ...
Thou art the last rose of the year,By gusty breezes rudely fanned:The dying Summer holds thee fastIn the hot hollow ...
Though I am poor, and cannot buyThe rare, time-mellowed things of Art,God keeps an open galleryOf glories for the poor ...
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