Twilight (Valery Yaklovich Bryusov Poems)
Electric moons glowOn long bent stalksThe telegraph wires humIn gentle unseen hands;Circular amber clock facesBrighten like magic above the crowd,And ...
Electric moons glowOn long bent stalksThe telegraph wires humIn gentle unseen hands;Circular amber clock facesBrighten like magic above the crowd,And ...
I have bent down to Sorrow.I have found her kneeling beside me.I could not rebuke her.Her eyes were heavy and ...
Long in the lap of childhood didst thou sleep,Think how thy youth like chaff did disappear;Shall life's sweet Spring forever ...
Kind Father of the human race, From whom we come, in whom we live,Hear us in heaven, thy dwelling-place, And when Thou ...
Forgive that, boldly risking scornThe Soul's deep yearning to confess,The singer's lips must hotly burnTo waft the flames of his ...
O humble thy heart in His sight, Who all that heart's weaknesses knows;His o'erflowing of mercy and might All strength, all salvation ...
Forgiveness Lane is old as youth,You cannot miss your way;'T is hedged with flowering thorn forsoothWhere white doves fearless stray.You ...
Why do the clock-hopperssing,And fever rustleAnd dry stove crackle --It is red silk burning.Why do the mice grind with their ...
When Mercy, first from Heaven deputed,(The fact has never been disputed),Arrived on earth, there with her cameA certain bashful, blue-eyed ...
Have mercy, Lord, on me,As Thou wert ever kind;Let me, oppressed with loads of guilt,Thy wonted mercy find.Wash off my ...
Our Father which in heaven art,Thy name be always hallowed;Thy kingdom come, thy will be done;Thy heavenly path be followedBy ...
I am Prytherch. Forgive me. I don't knowWhat you are talking about; your thoughts flowToo swiftly for me; I cannot ...
Darling,' he said, 'I never meantTo hurt you;' and his eyes were wet.'I would not hurt you for the world:Am ...
When you come back into your town,And women come to meet you thereAnd hold above their greying headsThe children high ...
Father, I bend before Thy sacred shrine,In grateful reverence to Thy will divine,And I, Thy child, rejoicing, make it mineBecause, ...
The noon is on the cattle-track;the air is void of sound,except where crows, poised burning-black,cry to the dusty ground.Through mulga ...
Like in a mirror, there's shade in the heartI'm bored alone - and with men…Slowly drags the light of the ...
My cheek upon the earthand I know mercy.With lips to the earthI know love.My nose in the earthand I know ...
A widow in black -- the crying fallCovers all hearts with a depressing cloud...While her man's words are clearly recalled,She ...
LIKE thee I once have stemm'd the sea of life, Like thee have languish'd after empty joys,Like thee have labour'd in ...
Fair Innocence, the Muses lovelicstOn Acts of Mercy sound thy rising Fame.Let others from frail Beauty hope Applause:Plead thou the ...
For Reverend Theodore RichardsonIf Mary came would MaryForgive, as Mothers may,And sad and second SaviourFurnish us today?She would not shake ...
If Mary came would MaryForgive, as Mothers may,and sad and second SaviourFurnish us today?She would not shake her head and ...
Oh need'st thou wonder at my sighs;Look not so kindly on me;In mercy veil these gentle eyes,Alas! they have undone ...
WE do not ask to be forgiven,Nor out of earth to winAn unpremeditated heaven,Nor quit the claim of sin.Our acts ...
Rent and bleeding,Upon her kneesShe cried, "Mercy!"The voice of Justice,Mockingly, inquired,"What of mercy have you shown?"Four hundred thousand,Armless colonists,Raised nubs-grim ...
Phyllis, farewell, I may no longer live;Yet if I die, fair Phyllis, I forgive.I live too long; come, gentle death ...
A SCOTS PASTORAL INSCRIBED TO JOHN WILKES, ESQ. Nos patriam fugimus.--VIRGIL.When Cupid first instructs his darts to flyFrom the sly ...
Two little children played among the flowers,Their mothers were of kin, tho' far apart;The children's ages were the very sameE'en ...
ACT V.SCENE I. A Room in Susskind's House. LIEBHAID, CLAIRE, REUBEN.LIEBHAID.The air hangs sultry as in mid-July.Look forth, Claire; moves ...
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