Homage To Life (Jules Supervielle Poems)
It's good to have chosenA living homeAnd housed timeIn a ceaseless heartAnd seen my handsAlight on the world,As on an ...
It's good to have chosenA living homeAnd housed timeIn a ceaseless heartAnd seen my handsAlight on the world,As on an ...
If earth's weariness for rest is changed, Rest on the far off shore,If earth's sighing's changed for singing Psalms of praise for ...
A trick that everyone abhorsIn little girls is slamming doors.A wealthy banker's little daughterWho lived in Palace Green, Bayswater(By name ...
Give ear unto the gentle layThat's only sad that it may please;It is discreet, and light it is:A whiff of ...
And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, 'Speak to us of Children.'And he said:Your children are ...
Offspring of Jove, Calliope, once moreTo the bright Sun, thy hymn of music pour;Whom to the child of star-clad Heaven ...
It's a still morning, quiet and cloudythe kind of grey day I like best;they'll be here soon, the little kids ...
Allie, call the birds in, The birds from the sky.Allie calls, Allie sings, Down they all fly.First there cameTwo white doves Then a ...
The winds and waves were roaring;The Pilgrims met for prayer;And here, their God adoring,They stood, in open air.When breaking day ...
No foreign tribute from a stranger-hand,Mother, I bring thee, whom not Heaven's songsWould as an alien reach.... Ah, but how ...
A SWEET white flower peepedUp from a glade,Laughingly tossed its bellTo the breeze that played,Shrinkingly drooped and fell;--Why did it ...
Over and over again I dream a dream, I am coming home to you in the starlit gloam;Long was the day ...
Rudkin was one who cattle sold,Laughed loud, talked bold;Children got, drank at inns,Nor thought much of his sins.Stout his legs, ...
BY one great Heart the Universe is stirred: By Its strong pulse, stars climb the darkening blue; It throbs in each fresh ...
Age and years of work showed in Lazer's handsand the eyes and breasts of his second wife were young-the paper ...
Now to be still and rest, while the heart remembersAll that is learned and loved in the days of long ...
The winds and waves were roaring;The Pilgrims met for prayer;And here, their God adoring,They stood, in open air.When breaking day ...
Why is it so, Dear Prince of Peace,That wrongs to Negroes never cease?Are they disloyal to thy name,And thus are ...
A STRENGTH Thy service cannot tire,A faith which doubt can never dim,A heart of love, a lip of fire,O Freedom's ...
WHAT turned the German myriads back From Paris whither they had won?The sword dropped from their hold grown slack; Children of Attila ...
Dear Lord, to Thee my knee is bent.-- Give me content-- Full-pleasured with what comes to me, What e'er it be: An humble roof--a ...
Children of the future age,Reading this indignant page,Know that in a former timeLove, sweet love, was thought a crime.In the ...
THE children! ah, the children!Your innocent, joyous ones;Your daughters, with souls of sunshine;Your buoyant and laughing sons.Look long in their ...
SAY, would the teeming earth its treasures yield,Or grateful plenty crown the smiling field,If bright'ning suns unceasing warm'd the plain,And ...
SOME children are so naughty, And some are very good;But the Genteel Family Did always what it should.They put on gloves when ...
Oh gay and shining June time!Oh meadow brave and bright,Abloom with little children,All tossing in the light!They dance and circle ...
Died at Hartford, September 28th, 1862.We miss her at the chancel-side, For when we last drew near,The holy Eucharist to share,She, ...
I entered my parlor one bright summer morn,My vases with flowers, sweet flowers to adorn.In arranging the curtains, there fell ...
And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children."And he said:Your children are ...
(Children at play on a French Battlefield)"When I was a child,"You shall tell one day,Children, on these blackened fieldsGallantly at ...
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