Agamemnon’s Warrior (Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev Poems)
A queer and fearful question is tight,Oppresses my soul and tosses:Can one be alive if Atreus has died —Has died ...
A queer and fearful question is tight,Oppresses my soul and tosses:Can one be alive if Atreus has died —Has died ...
Leader, poet, singer, artist, who have struggled long and won,Though the climbing is behind you, now the battle has begun,Shut ...
WEARY of the ceaseless warBeating down the baffled soul,-Thoughts that like a scimitarSmite us fainting at the goal.Weary of the ...
GLORIOUS, in saffron robes and veil unfurled, Borne on the wind of her ecstatic flight, Aurora floats before the Lord of Light,And ...
We go on living on the earththat has taken our blood to quench its thirst.There is a green spring coming---our ...
Pursue no more (my thoughts!) that false unkind,You may assoon imprison the North-wind;Or catch the Lightning as it leaps; or ...
O Leader fallen by the wayside prone,-- O strong great soul gone forth For thee the wide inhospitable north,And east and west, ...
Men wondered why I loved you, and none guessedHow sweet your slow, divine stupidity,Your look of earth, your sense of ...
I gather motley flowersAnd braid, braid a garland,Sharp spears fallAt your victorious feet.The sisters turn spindlesAnd spin, spin yarn.Wild hops ...
I'm still as spendthriftAs ever I have been.However few hours fate will leave me,Though I must ponder that solemn hour,At ...
LOVE used to carry a bow, you know,But now he carries a taper;It is either a length of wax aglow,Or ...
I.Warriors and Chiefs! should the shaft or the swordPierce me in leading the host of the Lord,Heed not the corse, ...
The morning smiles with soft delight,The streams do smoothly glide;'Tis not the sun that mines so bright,Tis NAN of LEADER ...
Ye men of Cuba, patriots all,Pray! mourn for your leader! place crape on the wall;Go tell the young children that ...
"If e'er my sonFollow the war, tell him it is a schoolWhere all the principles tending to honourAre taught, if ...
Thirty-one camelstrudge through the white burning sandsof the Sahara,laden with the loadof my longing,the treasure of my sacred hope.against themSahara ...
No bitterness: our ancestors did it.They were only ignorant and hopeful, they wanted freedom but wealth too.Their children will learn ...
From where I stand the sheep stand stillAs stones against the stony hill.The stones are grayAnd so are they.And both ...
_To the late Lady Rouse Boughton_.'Tis said, that jealous of a name We all would praise confine,And choke the leading path ...
THE sea-breeze beating on her brow,The foam asurge her shining feet,She stood,--a silver Victory,Poised high on some Athenian prow,Leading against ...
A Microcosm In Terza RimaI.Quiet I lay at last, and knew no moreWhether I breathed or not, so worn I ...
But, when they were alone,--and now no more By that subduing presence overawed,-- With free tongue giving loose to wrath ...
Is it illusion? or does there a spirit from perfecter ages, Here, even yet, amid loss, change, and corruption abide? ...
No Thrasion harpe, but a steeld furious whippe, no Nightingales, but Mandrakes shreeking sound,Adastors snakes to make these Thrasors skippe: ...
IOh, for the power to call to aid, of mineOwn humble Muse, the famed and sacred nine.Then might she fitly ...
(OF AN UNFINISHED POEM.) Dear woman! star of sad life's clouded heaven,I dedicate myself to thee again; Fair woman! as ...
LAND of departed fame! whose classic plains Have proudly echo'd to immortal strains; Whose hallow'd soil hath given the great ...
Gazing upon the toiling seas,In gloomy rows the silent captives sate;And as the ship rode off before the breeze,They murmured ...
THERE'S a mansion old 'mid the hills of the west,So old, that men know not by whom it was built;But ...
Far otherwise, within the Median camp, Had passed the changeful night. In dreamless sleep, Three portions had gone by: but, ...
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