Mystic and Cavalier (Lionel Pigot Johnson Poems)
GO from me: I am one of those who fall.What! hath no cold wind swept your heart at all,In my ...
GO from me: I am one of those who fall.What! hath no cold wind swept your heart at all,In my ...
DawnO GOD, Thy world is sweet with prayer;The breath of Christ is in the air;We rise on Thy free Spirit's ...
ALONG the woods the whispering night-airs swoon,A single bird-note dies adown the trees,Clear, pallid, mournful, droops the summer moon,Dipped in ...
THE light winds on the streamers playThat soon shall bear me far away;My comrades give the parting cheer,And I alone ...
Why came I here to live? Because he cameHither, my great-grandsire, who came-to die.Leading his little neighbor dwelling band,A century ...
Sing me that song! My spirit is sad, Life's pulses move fitful and slow; A meeting with loved ones in dreams I ...
IThe mellow smell of hollyhocksAnd marigolds and pinks and phloxBlends with the homely garden scentsOf onions, silvering into rods;Of peppers, ...
THE sun is fading in the skies,And evening shades are gathering fast;Fair city, ere that sun shall rise,Thy night hath ...
"'He cometh not,' she said."—MARIANAIt will not be to-day and yetI think and dream it will; and letThe slow uncertainty ...
The woods lay dreaming in a topaz dream, And we, who silently roamed hand in hand, Were pilgrims in a strange, enchanted ...
THE Blue is marching south once more,With serried steel and stately tread;Their martial music pealed before,Their flag of stars flashed ...
These of living emanate a formidable light,Which is equal to death, and when usedGives increase eternally.What fortifies in separate thoughtIs ...
The Christ-Child lay in BethlehemAnd the Wise Men gave Him gold,And Mary-Mother she hearkened themAs they prayed in the cattle-fold:"Smile ...
Let other bards with nobler talents sing The beauties of the mild, maturer spring. My rustic Muse on bleaker times must dwell, When ...
The stars are dimly seen among the shadows of the bay,And lights that win are seen in strife with lights ...
By Acqua Fredda's cloister-wallI pause to feel the mountain breeze,And watch the shadows eastward fallFrom immemorial cypress trees.Like arms outstretched ...
Almighty Being! wise and holy,Who hast to each his portion given;To the poor worm his station lowly,And to the choirs ...
O'er the church roof wanders Mute and calm the moon,Blue upon the snowdrifts Sparkling silent down.By the small pond dreaming, Stands the church ...
I.Man's cruel baseness to his beast! —Poor uncomplaining brute,Its wrongs are innocent at least, And all its sorrows mute:They cannot have deserved ...
I.Thus to be lost and thus to sink and die,Perchance were death indeed!-Constantia, turn!In thy dark eyes a power like ...
One night I dreamt that on a shoreOf far-off Eastern lands I stood,And to my ears the breezes boreFaint music ...
Lord of the lovely pageant,Maker of night and day,Is this a theme for glory,To give and take away?I am no ...
ITHE year hath turned, and daily grows the light:The garden stirs and wakens from its sleep,And tiny spikes of green ...
I saw a Sower walking slow Across the earth, from east to west;His hair was white as mountain snow, His head drooped ...
Sleep on, my darling, sleep on,I am keeping watch by your side,I have drawn in the curtains close,And banished the ...
HAVE faith in God. For whosoever lists To calm conviction in these days of strife,Will learn that in this steadfast stand ...
Merry New Year, cousin "Evvie,"Tho' the clouds are dark and heavy,Merry New Year, cousin "Carrie,"While the festive moments tarry;Though for ...
Mournful, sighing, sadly weeping,Sleepless 'midst a household sleeping;Midnight's lonely vigil keeping, Darkling and alone;From my sore each friend and loverStand aloof, ...
The spring sun flashes a rapier thrust Through the dingy school-house pane,A shining scimitar, free from rust,That cuts the cloud of ...
How I loved you in your sleep,With the starlight on your hair!The touch of your lips was sweet,Aziza whom I ...
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