To a Poet (Ondra Lysohorsky Poems)
Poetry is termedGrowing, creative, resistence.If you grow only in height and breadth,Not in the deeps too,The first storm uproots youUpon ...
Poetry is termedGrowing, creative, resistence.If you grow only in height and breadth,Not in the deeps too,The first storm uproots youUpon ...
How gracefully, O man, with thy palm-bough,Upon the waning century standest thou, In proud and noble manhood's prime,With unlocked senses, ...
LAND of departed fame! whose classic plains Have proudly echo'd to immortal strains; Whose hallow'd soil hath given the great ...
THE VICAR.WHERE ends our chancel in a vaulted space,Sleep the departed Vicars of the place;Of most, all mention, memory, thought ...
Sword of Common Sense! -Our surest gift: the sacred chainOf man to man: firm earth for trustIn structures vowed to ...
1 Who will honor the city without a name If so many are dead and others pan gold Or sell ...
Not yet! I thought this time 'twas done at last, the workings perfected, the life in it; and there's the ...
1.SO shall abundant entrance me be givenInto the truth, my life's inheritance.Lo! as the sun shoots straight from out his ...
1.ALAS, my tent! see through it a whirlwind sweep!Moaning, poor Fancy's doves are swept away.I sit alone, a sorrow half ...
Like a flood river whirled at rocky banks,An army issues out of wilderness,With battle plucking round its ragged flanks;Obstruction in ...
1. It is still bright night in the Alps, and a cloud, Authoring joyfulness, covers the yawning valley. Playful ...
EYEZION.DAWN had not streak'd the spacious veil of night, When EYEZION, the light poet of the spring, Hied from his ...
Rebellion hath broken up house,And hath left me old lumber to sell;Come hither and take your choice,I'll promise to use ...
JOHN, oh John,Thou honourable birdSun-peering eagle.Taking a bird's-eye viewEven of Calvary and ResurrectionNot to speak of Babylon's whoredom.High over the ...
This was its promise, held to faithfully:The early morning sun came in this wayUntil the angle of its saffron beamBetween ...
"OH, queen of dreams! 'tis now the hour, Thy fav'rite hour of silence and of sleep; Come, bring thy wand, ...
MANSION assigned me by Eternal Love,While on this lower stage I play my part,In prelude to the harmonies above,How wonderful ...
COME Contemplation, in whose mienAwful Wisdom sits serene,Pleas'd shall the eye thy form survey;No gaudy plumage decks thy brow,Nor dazzling ...
SO heavenly beautiful it lay, It was less like a human corse Than that fair shape in which perforce A ...
HAPPY the mind with self-enjoyment blest,Who makes the tranquil paths of life her choice;Seeks gentle Peace, 'mid tumults ne'er possest,And ...
Why, certainly. Let's listen to the cricket. Oh, I'm quite keen. Test match, I understand.At... What's that? Oh, Australia's at ...
HAIL! sable queen of soft repose,Who bid'st the weary eyelids close,To Sleep's profoundest sway resign'd;Or, still more pleasing to the ...
Around, how joyful in the chilly air Sweet sounds are floating! While above, the sky, Peopled with visions bright, seems ...
YOURSELF most composite,Chequered with day and night,What secret thing are you? -Behold that sky of blue:All that you hear and ...
By life tormented, and by cunning hope,When my soul surrenders in its battle with them,Day and night I press my ...
There was once a man who made a weird machine,Employing dynamite and kerosene. His subsequent destruction ...
Now, my gift of crude invective is astonishingly high, And I've quite a flair for fierce vituperation,But I have to ...
IHail to the golden OneSeen in the midmost Sun !Hail to the golden beard and golden lips,His whole lige golden ...
Oh, days of beauty standing veiled apart,With dreamy skies and tender, tremulous air,In this rich Indian summer of the heartWell ...
Drifting, trembling,aching voice -alone in the universeecholess.Foreboding remembrance -wounded hearts' pain -outburst of anguishedsouls rent in twain.Driven by obsessions,dragged to ...
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