Nocturne (Gerald Griffin Poems)
Sleep that like the couched dove Broods o'er the weary eye, Dreams that with soft heavings move The heart of ...
Sleep that like the couched dove Broods o'er the weary eye, Dreams that with soft heavings move The heart of ...
Wail for Daedalus, all that is fairest!All that is tuneful in air or wave!Shapes whose beauty is truest and rarest,Haunt ...
Within the circuit of this plodding lifeThere enter moments of an azure hue,Untarnished fair as is the violetOr anemone, when ...
ONE luminous night in winter,All crystal clear and still,A band of wondering childrenWere grouped by the window sill.The window looked ...
At morn when gentle breezes play,When sunshine lightens up the day,When ripples shake the ocean's coast,Or when the wind its ...
I would hope for the children of West HamWooden-frame houses, square with some-sort stuffCrammed in to keep the wind away ...
The fire is turning clear and blithely,Pleasantly whistles the winter wind;We are about thee, thy friends and kindred,On us all ...
Within the circuit of this plodding lifeThere enter moments of an azure hue,Untarnished fair as is the violetOr anemone, when ...
ION a winter's night long time ago(The bells ring loud and the bells ring low),When high howled wind, and down ...
Though cloudy skies, and northern blasts,Retard the gentle spring awhile;The sun will conqu'ror prove at last,And nature wear a vernal ...
Ah, how do I to buildMe up my song for thee?Yea, and tell unto thee of Him.I'd shew unto thee ...
A door sunk in a hillside, with a boltthick as the boy's arm, and behind that doorthe walls of ice, ...
I LIFT thee, thus, thou brown and rugged cone,Well poised and high,Between the flowering grasses and the sky;And, as sea-voices ...
SINCE I left the city's heatFor this sylvan, cool retreat,High upon the hill-side hereWhere the air is clean and clear,I ...
ILady and Queen and Mystery manifoldAnd very Regent of the untroubled sky,Whom in a dream St. Hilda did beholdAnd heard ...
Mara Mori brought mea pair of sockswhich she knitted herselfwith her sheepherder's hands,two socks as soft as rabbits.I slipped my ...
for Doug LangThey came here first in a car shaped like a heartand now they depart as brilliant jazz musicians.They ...
Not from Mars and not from ThorComes the war, the welcome war,Many months we waited forTo free us from the ...
(Air: "Song of a Thousand Years") Up from your knees, ye cringing serf men! What have ye gained by whines and tears? Rise! ...
Under my trees of green and goldI stroll in the soft, autumnal days,With never a hint of winter's cold,Though the ...
Though to the world I seeme to bee, Mix'd in a concurse of societye, Farre from a life contemplative, Yet with a Desert ...
They stirI cool her in winterA second so gilded that the bit goesFrom my gold thigh I thirsts for her, stirring, from my ...
The sky low down in distant West, is tinged with golden hue,While all the glorious vault above is one bright ...
O FLOWER whose beauty Wordsworth with delightBeheld and sang a hundred years ago,Still hast thou golden loveliness to show,Still is ...
O HEART of Spring! Spirit of light and love and joyous day, So soon to faint beneath the fiery Summer: Still smiles the ...
Summer may come, in sun-blonde splendor,To reap the harvest that Springtime sows;And Fall lead in her old defender, Winter, all huddled ...
Hail, beauteous maiden, gentle spring! I see thee slowly move,On lowering wings, on yon green hill From yon blue fields above.Hail, beauteous ...
THERE is a golden season in our year,Between October's hale and lusty cheer,And the hoar frost of winter's empire drear;Which, ...
Love me. I care not what the circling years To me may do. If, but in spite of time and tears, You prove ...
ITHE season falters: our desires outrunIts progress. Winter, though it yield to spring,Like a dead wasp hath venom in its ...
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