The Great Drum (Hartley Burr Alexander Poems)
The circle of the Earth is the head of a great drum;With the day, it moves upward — booming;With the ...
The circle of the Earth is the head of a great drum;With the day, it moves upward — booming;With the ...
From this instant I shall no longerConsider myself alone.I shall be confident, yet unconfiding.I shall be sure and secure.I shall ...
II am the Sea, which God's controlling handHolds in command.Subservient in seeming good or illTo work His will.IIOr if my ...
Smaller than the smallest atom,All embracing as the heavens,Tuka views the world objective -Name and form as all delusion -Realising ...
Leave starry heaven behind,Enter the atom, shrinkInto the vast, and findYou stand upon the brinkOf starry heaven again—There where you ...
Nature, it seems is the popular namefor milliards and milliards and milliardsof particles playing their infinite gameof billiards and billiards ...
TO THEM THAT MOURNLet your tears flow; let your sad sighs have scope;Only take heed they fan, they water Hope.A ...
''Powers, erst of heaven; and, haply, yet again, As, with the years, we wiser, mightier grow, Thither, triumphant, destined to ...
Tombed in the solid night of starless space; From nearest living orb so far removed, That light, of all material ...
OSMOTAR THE BRIDE-ADVISERNow the bride must be instructed,Who will teach the Maid of Beauty,Who instruct the Rainbow-daughter?Osmotar, the wisdom-maiden,Kalew's fair ...
AN APOSTROPHE TO THE MOON.O, silvery moon, fair mistress of the night,Thou mellow, ever vaccilating orb,How many eons of unmeasured ...
Lucilla, wedded to Lucretius, foundHer master cold; for when the morning flushOf passion and the first embrace had died Between ...
1660At last the long darkness of anarchy lifts, and the dawn o'er the grayIn rosy pulsation floods; the tremulous amber ...
1Senlin sits before us, and we see him. He smokes his pipe before us, and we hear him. Is he ...
While others sing the fortune of the great, Empire and arms, and all the pomp of state; With Britain's hero ...
"Standing between the sun and moon preservesA certain secrecy. Or seems to keepSomething inviolate if only thatHis father was an ...
O Lord, my God, how longShall my poor heart pant for a boundless joy?How long, O mighty Spirit, shall I ...
Stop, oh my friends, let us pause to weep over the remembrance of my beloved.Here was her abode on the ...
'What have you there?' the great Panjandrum saidTo the Master of the Revels who had ledA bucking truant with a ...
I stood at sunrise, on the topmost partOf lofty mountain, massively sublime;A pinnacle of trachyte, seamed and scarredBy countless generations' ...
February 23, 1921. Read at Hart House Theatre before the University of Toronto. The Muse is stern unto her favoured ...
Above the dark good sea the boundless air rushed here and there, it flew like a blue falcon, silently swallowing ...
Three days I heard them grieve when I lay dead, (It was so strange to me that they should weep!) ...
Evening and morning, midnight and mid noon,For twice five lustres, this my cell hath been,My pleasure-house and prison.—I did swear,Kissing ...
Smoking lately in my "Funny," as I'm wont, beneath the bank, Listening to Cam's rippling murmurs thro' the ...
1. North Carolina, Washington and Baltimore. 2. An auto going south, and words in a room, And outside, pink of ...
There once was a time when I revelled in rhyme, with Valentines deluged my cousins, Translated Tibullus and ...
I AM a weakling. God, who made The still, strong man, made also me. The God who ...
In that fair capital where Pleasure, crowned Amidst her myriad courtiers, riots and rules, I too have been a suitor. ...
From the tops of the iron ladder of hopes I announce my good news, From the valleys of ashes, corpses ...
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