News of War (Henry Kendall Poems)
Today, while yet the rumour filled the street,I left your faces troubled with the thoughtOf brothers to a bodeful fury ...
Today, while yet the rumour filled the street,I left your faces troubled with the thoughtOf brothers to a bodeful fury ...
I.Nine of the clock, oh! Wake my lazy head!Your shoes of red morocco, Your silk bed-gown:Rouse, rouse, speck-eyed Mary In your high bed!A ...
Who is he, becowled,Most foreboding, seeking yon?Surely no companion of mine!He drones a dull page, and his utteranceCometh forth as ...
When first I saw you in the curious streetLike some platoon of soldier ghosts in grey,My mad impulse was all ...
Last night, within our little town The Dead came marching through;In a long line, like living men, Just as they used to ...
Happy are they and charmed in life Who through long wars arrive unscarredAt peace. To such the wreath be given,If they ...
Salvation to all that will is nigh;That All, which always is all everywhere,Which cannot sin, and yet all sins must ...
Brother belov'd if health shall smile again,Upon this wasted form and fever'd cheek:If e'er returning vigour bid these weakAnd languid ...
Behold man. Man, Man, God's noblest creation.What doth man do with his heritance?Show me one king who with his powerHath ...
All slumb'rous images that be, combined,To this white couch and cool shall woo thee, Sleep!First will I think on fields ...
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,Brother to death, in silent darkness born,Relieve my languish and restore the light,With dark ...
TO-NIGHT the sea sends up a gulf-like sound,And ancient rhymes are ringing in my head,The many lilts of song we ...
Come, brother, come. Lets lift it;come now, hewit! roll away!Shackles fall upon the Judgment DayBut lets not wait for it.God's ...
My own dream is lofty, simple thing:To seize the oar, put feet into the stirrups,And to deceive the time, that ...
The flowers I pass have eyes that look at me,The birds have ears that hear my spirit's voice,And I am ...
We ask not that the slave should lie,As lies his master, at his ease,Beneath a silken canopy,Or in the shade ...
I have no Brother,-they who meet me nowOffer a hand with their own wills defiled,And, while they wear a smooth ...
One stood upon the morning hills and sawThe heavens revealed in symbol and in sign;He read their mystic meanings, line ...
Obedient to the echoed harbour gunThe homing traffic on the water's breastFold up their tawny wings and take their rest.The ...
Over the green and yellow rice-fieldssweep the shadows of the autumnclouds followed by the swift-chasingsun. The bees forget to sip their ...
IF now anew the search were to be madeFor One to guide me onward through the gloomOf this dim world ...
Lady, thou weepest for the Maniac's wo,And thou art fair, and thou, like me, art young;Oh! may thy bosom never, ...
Methinks that if my spirit could beholdIts earthly habitation void and chill,Whence all its time-encircled good and illExpanded to eternity, ...
Dear friend, dear brother, I have owed you thisSince many days, the tribute of a song.Shall I cheat you who ...
FROM the misty shores of midnight, touched with splendors of the moon,To the singing tides of heaven, and the light ...
My brother, I am hungry,-give me foodSuch as my Father gives me at his board;He has for many years been ...
A SON of Adam dug beside the way."Why, Brother, do you dig?" I stopped to ask.Standing at stoop and pausing ...
No, not from tuning-forks of gold Take I my key for singing;From Upper Seats no order bold Can set my music ringing;But ...
Oh, gently, brother, gently!I am a pot upon the shelf,And thou art passing.Gently, brother, gently! Brush me not.Oh, if thou ...
Conquistador, set in the iron armor,I gaily follow the outgoing star,I go over precipices, harborsAnd rest in joyful groves, so ...
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