A Sophistical Argument (Lesbia Harford Poems)
Great crane o'ertopping the delicate treesWhy do you seem so fair,Swaying and raising your load with easeHigh in the misty ...
Great crane o'ertopping the delicate treesWhy do you seem so fair,Swaying and raising your load with easeHigh in the misty ...
Those who don't feel this Lovepulling them like a river,those who don't drink dawnlike a cup of spring wateror take ...
Well has the world been named the World,-- From its whirlpool heart of worrying thingsOn circling tides incessantly curl'd And hurried around ...
Everything changes, the wheelof the law turns without pause.After the rain, good weather.In the wink of an eyeThe universe throws ...
I cannot change, as others do,Though you unjustly scorn;Since that poor swain that sighs for you,For you alone was born.No, ...
I cannot change, as others do,Though you unjustly scorn;Since that poor swain that sighs for you,For you alone was born.No, ...
ILL -fated Charlotte, whose enlighten'd mindExalted Genius by true taste refined;For whom the Loves that hail'd thy natal mornWove wreaths ...
Like a painting it is set before one,But less brittle, ageless; these coloursAre renewed daily with variationsOf light and distance ...
You ask me, my heavenly Maid !Why my fancy is thus prone to wander, Why the vows that to you once ...
Tho' from the feeling heart be kindred torn,And early friends, by chance or change, it mourn;While it inhabits in this ...
At noon in the desert a panting lizardwaited for history, its elbows tense,watching the curve of a particular roadas if ...
Your face has lostThe clearness it once wore,And your brow smooth and whiteIts look of light;Your eyes that wereSo careless, ...
Whate'er may be my unknown fate Upon this dark, terrestrial sphere,Wilt smile to hear that I am blest, And o'er my anguish ...
MARCH 8, 1882THE waves unbuild the wasting shore;Where mountains towered the billows sweep,Yet still their borrowed spoils restore,And build new ...
Oh! what a change since last we met, when thou wert all my own,And love dictated every word, and sweetened ...
THE change has come, and Helen sleeps-Not sleeps; but wakes to greater deepsOf wisdom, glory, truth, and light,Than ever blessed ...
Thou wert lovely to my sight, When in yonder dell I found theeIn thy radiant beauty bright, Though a desert spread around ...
The memory of what we've lostIs with us more than what we've won;Perhaps because we count the costBy what we ...
A man and woman walkingUp the rye hillHad no breath for talking.The evening was still;Only the wind in the rough ...
I KNOW not how to call you light,Since I myself was lighter;Nor can you blame my changing plightWho were the ...
Lying alone I dreamed a dream last night: Methought that Joy had come to comfort me For all the past, its suffering ...
Eyes are at rest, the stars are setting.Hushed are the stirrings of birds in their nests,Of monsters in the ocean.You ...
Within the hollowed hand of God,Blood-red they lie, the dice of fate,That have no time nor period,And know no early ...
My heart, display toward all your friends a changeful character,Adding into it the disposition that each one has.Adopt the disposition ...
All nature has a feeling: woods, fields, brooksAre life eternal: and in silence theySpeak happiness beyond the reach of books;There's ...
and age.IN all things which are young, Motion is swift:But moving long, is tir'd, and groweth stiff.So Atomes are, in ...
Mourn, mourn, day is with darkness fled,What heavn's then governs earth,O none, but hell in heaven's stead,Choke with his mists ...
O wind and waters, ye aloneHave chanted the primeval toneSince Nature first began.All other voices change, but yeAbide, the soul ...
Like Esop's fellow-slaves, O Mercury,Which could do all things, thy faith is ; and ILike Esop's self, which nothing. I ...
TIS severall Figur'd Atomes that make Change,When severall Bodies meet as they do range.For if they sympathise, and do agree,They ...
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