Song of the Son (Jean Toomer Poems)
Pour O pour that parting soul in songO pour it in the sawdust glow of nightInto the velvet pine-smoke air ...
Pour O pour that parting soul in songO pour it in the sawdust glow of nightInto the velvet pine-smoke air ...
In Memory of the Destruction of Messina by EarthquakeSicilian Muse! O thou who sittest dumbAmid the sodden fields and ways ...
There were seven shining stars that swung above my cradle(She never was kind to me, Diana our Lady the Moon!)And ...
O gentle Sleep, wilt thou lay thy headFor one little hour on thy lover's bed,And none but the silent stars ...
The spacious firmament on high,With all the blue ethereal sky,And spangled heav'ns, a shining frame,Their great original proclaim:Th' unwearied Sun, ...
All the things magicians doCould be done by me and youFreely, if we only knew.Human children every dayCould play at ...
LONG, swinging bells of pomegranate!O orange-buds, falling as snow!O singing of lark and of linnet -Singing high in the leaves, ...
I.WE roam the hills together,In the golden summer weather,Will and I:And the glowing sunbeams bless us,And the winds of heaven ...
1.I know now why the world was sad,With so much good to make it glad;Why all things loveliest and bestHave ...
Did you hear the children singing, O my brothers?Did you hear the children singing as our troops went marching past? In ...
'Lady,' I said, 'this garland wear!For thou wilt wear it gracefully;And on thy brow 'twill sit so fair,And thou wilt ...
I know: to the trees, but not to us,Perfection of the life is given, whole.And on the Earth - the ...
1.On a bank, beside a willow,Heaven her covering, earth her pillow,Sad Amynta sigh'd alone:From the cheerless dawn of morningTill the ...
FOUR Princesses lived in a Green Tower- A Bright Green Tower in the middle of the sea;And no one could think-oh, ...
NEVER more, when the day is o'er,Will the lonely vespers sound;No bells are ringing-no monks are singing,When the moonlight falls ...
Give to barrows, trays, and pansGrace and glimmer of romance;Bring the moonlight into noonHid in gleaming piles of stone;On the ...
Among the purple buds, like laden censers,Careless upon the wind the catkins swing;They lay a golden spell upon the morning.From ...
The man, my friend, whose conscious heartWith virtue's sacred ardour glows,Nor taints with death the envenom'd dart,Nor needs the guard ...
The day's wild ocean sings and thunders,And beats against the fatal shore,This breaker with dumb sorrow sunders,And these like laughing ...
ROUND de meadows am a-ringingDe darkeys' mournful song,While de mocking-bird am singing,Happy as de day am long.Where de ivy am ...
Whisht, Baby! Whisht!Quick below the cover!Down into your nest, my bird!And--don't--you--dare--peep--over!For the grey wolves they are prowling,They are prowling, they ...
High in the apple bough jauntily swinging,Hid by the branches in bridal array,Straight from his heart, all his life in ...
Up, up, let us greetThe season so sweet,For winter is gone:And the flowers are springing,And little birds singing,Their soft notes ...
Alone in desert dreary,A bird with folded wingsBeholds the waste about her,And sweetly, sweetly sings.So heaven-sweet her singing,So clear the ...
There is snow on the ground, And the valleys are cold,And a midnight profoundBlackly squats o'er the wold;But a light on ...
You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it--it's theonly way. So as not to feel the ...
The Spacious Firmament on high,With all the blue Ethereal Sky,And spangled Heav'ns, a Shining Frame,Their great Original proclaim:Th' unwearied Sun, ...
The Spacious Firmament on high,With all the blue Ethereal Sky,And spangled Heav'ns, a Shining Frame,Their great Original proclaim:Th' unwearied Sun, ...
The guns were silent, and the silent hillshad bowed their grasses to a gentle breezeI gazed upon the vales and ...
Birth of the word is by agony molded,Through earthly life it is quietly going,It is a stranger, which drinks from ...
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