To A Singer (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Beneath thy Midas touch life's sullen graysAre thrilled to sudden gold; as some far gleamFrom wings of Helios athwart thy ...
Beneath thy Midas touch life's sullen graysAre thrilled to sudden gold; as some far gleamFrom wings of Helios athwart thy ...
O camp of flowers, with poplars girdled round,Gray guardians of life's soft and purple bud!O silver spring, beside whose brimming ...
O patient shore, thou canst not go to meetThy love, the restless sea, how comfortestThou all thy loneliness? Art thou ...
THIS is the bitter birth-month of the year.The sun looms large against the leaden sky,Rayless and red, as 'twere a ...
THE winds are loud and trumpet-clear to-day;They seem to sound in onset, half in ire,Half in the wildness of a ...
I hate that noisy drum!—It is a soundThat's full of war and bondage, and I blushThat liberty had ever cause ...
Bloom passionately, O apple-trees, this spring;Drink deep of the April sun, the April rain,That this may be your loveliest blossoming,O ...
I lie stretched out upon the window-seatAnd doze, and read a page or two, and doze,And feel the air like ...
War broke: and now the Winter of the worldWith perishing great darkness closes in.The foul tornado, centred at Berlin,Is over ...
TO M.O.S.Mary, since first I knew thee, to this hour,My love hath deepened, with my wiser senseOf what in Woman ...
Say, canst thou number all the stars that gleamAlong the silent air in dazzling light,And form an qverlasting diademFor the ...
Poor hill farmer astray in the grass;There came a movement and he looked up, butAll that he saw was the ...
The Spring is come, and Spring flowers coming too, The crocus, patty kay, the rich hearts' ease;The polyanthus peeps with blebs ...
Love, we're going home now,Where the vines clamber over the trellis:Even before you, the summer will arrive,On its honeysuckle feet, ...
A BLUE-BELL springs upon the ledge,A lark sits singing in the hedge;Sweet perfumes scent the balmy air,And life is brimming ...
Not human art, but living gods aloneCan fashion beauties that by changing live,—Her buds to spring, his fruits to autumn ...
As are the sands, fair Licia, on the shore,Or colored flowers, garlands of the spring,Or as the frosts not seen, ...
Thou lookest up with meek confiding eyeUpon the clouded smile of April's face,Unharmed though Winter stands uncertain byEyeing with jealous ...
GOD gives not Kings the style of Gods in vain,For on his Throne his Scepter do they sway:And as their ...
The Maple puts her corals on in May,While loitering frosts about the lowlands cling,To be in tune with what the ...
The Morning arose, She was pillow'd on snows, And kerchief'd in wind and storm; And she dallied with Night Till Hyperion's light Had struggled abroad ...
DEAR, that I love you let me rather showBy striving to amend this life of mineSo marred from the ideal ...
IN Adam's sinDid I begin.With toil and sweatMy bread I get;At once, with AbelSpread my table,Rebel with CainAnd sin again.O'er ...
O love that is not Love, but dear, so dear!That is not love because it goes full soon,Like flower born ...
FARE you well, who love the highways,Love the cities, tall and bright,For the forest ways are my ways,And the birds' ...
Spring, summer, autumn! priestesses that holdAlternate watch at nature's altar! DeepAnd full of mystery the course ye keepIn hidden sympathy. ...
IN a garden that I know,Only palest blossoms blow.There the lily, purest nun,Hides her white face from the sun,And the ...
The thistledown's flying, though the winds are all still,On the green grass now lying, now mounting the hill,The spring from ...
Mourn not for these, the children of the spring :On Flemish plains and far Aegean sand,Mourn not for these, who ...
Alone in my chamber, forsaken, unsought, My spirit's enveloped in shadows of night,Is there no one to give me a smile ...
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