The Tom-toms (Laurence Hope Poems)
Dost thou hear the tom-toms throbbing,Like a lonely lover sobbingFor the beauty that is robbing him of all his life's ...
Dost thou hear the tom-toms throbbing,Like a lonely lover sobbingFor the beauty that is robbing him of all his life's ...
Pale-faced is he, as in the doorHe stands and trembles visibly,--With diffidence approaches me,And says: "Dear editor,"Since write you must, ...
Leaning against the wind across the paddock wayscomes Dan home with forward stoop like a man bent and old,clashes the ...
I'VE a humble little mottoThat is homely, though it's true, -Keep a-pluggin' away.It's a thing when I've an objectThat I ...
ICHILL was the midnight at the birth of May,And yet ere long the infant month declinedTo wear the rags that ...
Zeal and fortitude.Matt. 5:16.Do I believe what Jesus saith,And think his gospel true?Lord, make me bold to own my faith,And ...
IBlack and green minute, in wave, ending inTwo bending hands of cellophane,Like flowers without water.Space of my eyes, you impose ...
Written for the Dedication Services at Oakfield Road Church, Clifton. 13th Nov. 1864.A house to God the Monarch built, For altars ...
'When a woman feels alone, when the roomis full of daemons," the Nootka tribeTells us, 'The Old Woman will be ...
In the torrent of your hair,the river of your mouth,in the forest dim as dusk,cries are futileidle the splash.I'll wrap ...
I HAVE loved you, oh, how madly!I have wooed you softly, sadly,As the changeful years went by;Yet you kept your ...
'What, no crown won,These two whole years,By man of fortitude beyond his peers,In Thrace or Macedon?''No, none.But what deep trouble ...
Cromwell, our chief of men, who through a cloudNot of war only, but detractions rude,Guided by faith and matchless fortitude,To ...
AND high amongst these chiefs of iron grain,Large-statured natures, souls of Spartan mien,Superbly brave, inflexibly serene,Man of the, stalwart hope, ...
OUR general was the greatest and bravest of generals.For his deeds, look around you on this coast-Here is his name ...
The horse affords the best example amongst animals of perseverance: hewill go on until he falls exhausted or dead. On ...
I didn't win light in a windfall,nor by deed of a father's will.I hewed my light from granite.I quarried my ...
Out of my heart, one day, I wrote a song, With my heart's blood imbued, Instinct with passion, tremulously strong, With grief subdued; Breathing ...
I do not think that skies and meadows areMoral, or that the fixture of a starComes of a quiet spirit, ...
O Cross you divide the heart,O Cross you split the world,Cross divine and wood of bitterness,Bloodstained price of the Beatitudes,Royal ...
Had I no revelation but thy voice—No word but thine—Still would my soul in certitude rejoiceThat love divineThy heart, his ...
EUGENIOTOEMMA,ON HER RETURN FROM THE EAST-INDIE APRIL 15, 1781. START not, dear EMMA ...
PART I IUNDER the shade of convent towers, Where fast and vigil mark the hours, From childhood ...
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 ...
The HumiliationThe Summary of the Poem.Theophila, or Divine Love, ascends to her Belov'd by three Degrees. By Humilitie, by Zeal, ...
NOW Winter pours his terrors o'er the plain,And icy barriers close the wild domain,From the fierce North the sweeping blast ...
O la splendeur de notre joie,Tiss?e en or dans l'air de soie!Voici la maison douce et son pignon l?ger,Et le ...
Round Rajagriha five fair hills arose,Guarding King Bimbas?ra's sylvan town:Baibh?ra green with lemon-grass and palms;Bipulla, at whose foot thin SarsutiSteals ...
''Powers, erst of heaven; and, haply, yet again, As, with the years, we wiser, mightier grow, Thither, triumphant, destined to ...
An Incident in One Act.PERSONS. THE KING, THE QUEEN, EARL ATHULF, THE MINSTREL.Heralds, Pages, Men-at-Arms, Sentries. TIME: THE PAST.SCENE:Night in ...
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