A Faith On Trial (George Meredith Poems)
On the morning of May,Ere the children had entered my gateWith their wreaths and mechanical lay,A metal ding-dong of the ...
On the morning of May,Ere the children had entered my gateWith their wreaths and mechanical lay,A metal ding-dong of the ...
MANY a graven gem, besetWith gold, is worn as an amuletIn the far-off climes of the East,—a charmTo preserve the ...
While thus the gentle Aziel, at the sight Of holiness, to thoughts of Heaven recalled, Stood contrite, watchful,--by far different ...
First-born of the creating Voice!Minister of God's Spirit, who wast sentWaiting upon him first, what time he wentMoving about mid ...
THE LOVER'S JOURNEY.It is the Soul that sees: the outward eyesPresent the object, but the Mind descries;And thence delight, disgust, ...
Poet Oh, my soul! the draught is bitter Yet it must be sweetly drunken: Heart and ...
No cloud to dim the splendour of the dayWhich breaks o'er Naples and her lovely bay,And lights that brilliant sea ...
Ye dear stars of the Bear, I did not think I should again be turning, as I used, To see ...
1.THOU art of this world, Christ. Thou know'st it all;Thou know'st our evens, our morns, our red and gray;How moons, ...
I sit, unconscious of all things around,And look into my soul. Within it farThere is an image, dim and indistinct.Of ...
I There is a man of fifty-four years; He has dyspepsia, it appears; He chooses his food carefully, He pays ...
'Attar began The Conference of the Birds (Mantiq al-tair) with an invocation praising the holy Creator in which he suggested ...
I pray you this my song to takeNot scornfully, for Boyhood's sake;It is the last, until the dayWhen your kind ...
"The fierceness of man shall turn to Thy praise."HAIL, thoughtful wanderer, to these halls of Art,Here, let her bright conceptions ...
Sis licet felix ubicunque mavisEt memor nostri . . . vivasOn river banks my love was born,And cradled 'neath a ...
Hail! thou eternal flood, whose restless waves Roll onward in their course, as wild and free, As if the shores ...
O Ita, mother of my heart and mind--My nourisher, my fosterer, my friend,Who taught me first to God's great will ...
Let's talk about love, that wonderful thing,Let's blend the scent of Venice with Paris in Spring,Let's gaze at that moon ...
I.THOU com'st, in beauty, on my gaze at last,"On Susquehannah's side, fair Wyoming!"Image of many a dream, in hours long ...
A RONDEAU BY COUPERINQuiet form of silent nun,What has given you to my inward eyes?What has marked you, unknown one,In ...
Left, right - left, right . . . We march today for memories (the grizzled Digger said)Memories of lost dreams ...
I took the trail to the wooded canyon, The trail from the sea: For I heard a calling ...
Whene'er those forms arise before my sight, E'en as from hideous visions of the night, I cover up ...
So from the ground we felt that virtue branch Through all our veins till we were whole, our wrists As ...
O Sylvia, dost thou remember still That period of thy mortal life, When beauty so bewildering Shone in thy laughing, ...
1. Bernice thinks a little. Bernice is two months old; the world is new for her. Ah, will her parents' ...
When I came from my land if I really came from my land ...
SAY not to me:'Cromwell, thou diest.' Save thy timid breath.Do not the wild winds noise it o'er the world?Shall he ...
Greece! hear that joyful sound,A stranger's voice upon thy sacred hill;Whose tones shall bid the slumbering nations round, ...
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return to God who gave ...
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