A Poet’s Room (Greenwich Village 1912) (Harry Kemp Poems)
I have a table, cot and chairAnd nothing more. The walls are bareYet I confess that in my roomLie Syrian ...
I have a table, cot and chairAnd nothing more. The walls are bareYet I confess that in my roomLie Syrian ...
Behold, I would speak not in command,For unto youth, command is like a lash,And youth may not run beneath a ...
'Tis my twentieth year: dim, now, youth stretches behind me; Breaking fresh at my feet, lies, like an ocean, the world. And ...
HE came in velvet and in gold;He wooed her with a careless grace;A confidence too rashly boldBreathed in his language ...
BENEATH that dome, reclined the youthful king,Upon a silver couch; and soothed to moodAs free and soft as perfumes from ...
How are Thy servants blest, O Lord!How sure is their defense!Eternal wisdom is their guide,Their help Omnipotence.In foreign realms, and ...
"As a teil-tree or an oak,"So the ancient prophet spoke"Whose heart remaineth when they shedTheir leaves!" The prophet now is ...
Around, the stillness deepened; then the grainWent wild with wind; and every briery laneWas swept with dust; and then, tempestuous ...
A COUNTRY parson and his little son,Through the still night were homeward driving on ;The darkness could be felt, for ...
I.Yes: you contemn the perjur'd maidWho all your favorite hopes betray'd:Nor, though her heart should home return,Her tuneful tongue it's ...
These are my thoughts you are expressingwith such confidence, yet inexactly-thank goodness for that!I myself never trumpeted them with such ...
Child of our love, thou sleepest softly now In our dear home perchance, with thine own smile Resting upon thy rosy lips, ...
I do not doubt you.I know you love me.It is a fact of your indoor face,A true fancy of your ...
I am no longer afraid of acknowledgement.I have walked surely with a staff of doubt,Confident of my sureness!But that was ...
Keep thou amidst the fulness of thy daysSome little space apart for thoughts of me,Where all the best I have ...
You trust in her; alas I see too well you do!And you cast doubt upon my constancy,(You, who are the ...
How strange is the day, how strange!About me surge the waves, the torrentsOf man's hunger for knowledge,And he who would ...
Nearer and ever nearer...My body, tired but tense,Hovers 'twixt vague pleasureAnd tremulous confidence.Arms to have and to use themAnd a ...
From this instant I shall no longerConsider myself alone.I shall be confident, yet unconfiding.I shall be sure and secure.I shall ...
The sentiments apparentThe lightness of approachThe tresses of caresses.Without worry or suspicionYour eyes confide in what they seeSeen by what ...
She gave me all that woman can,Nor her soul's nunnery forego,A confidence that man to manWithout remorse can never show.Rare ...
EUGENIOTOEMMA,ON HER RETURN FROM THE EAST-INDIE APRIL 15, 1781. START not, dear EMMA ...
But, when they were alone,--and now no more By that subduing presence overawed,-- With free tongue giving loose to wrath ...
Joy was in Israel; for all hoped that, now, A three days' journey in the wilderness Verily should they go, ...
THE PARTING HOUR.Minutely trace man's life; year after year,Through all his days let all his deeds appear,And then though some ...
Fair land! of chivalry the old domain,Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain!Though not for thee with classic shores ...
Bring the wine-cup, companions! and let it go round! At its bottom good humor and mirth will be found; Bring ...
While morning yet was young, within his hall Of justice Pharaoh sat: his princes, priests, Judges, and ministers, in costly ...
''Powers, erst of heaven; and, haply, yet again, As, with the years, we wiser, mightier grow, Thither, triumphant, destined to ...
Fytte IBy Wood and Wold"Beneath the greenwood bough." — W. Scott.Lightly the breath of the spring wind blows, Though ...
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