My Dull Brother (Patience Worth Poems)
You, my brother, you, whose dull eyesLook forth unto dull days, whose hours make progressLike unto a procession of cowled ...
You, my brother, you, whose dull eyesLook forth unto dull days, whose hours make progressLike unto a procession of cowled ...
Am I a slave upon a dun-dust path,Weighted sore, bourne low of Sorrow's plying?Set on my way by One who ...
I recall a touch, which frequently fell upon me,A chilling touch as though the shroudOf Eternity had swept me.Well I ...
I remember thee in my youth, when our handsWere still soft and dimpled, and the contact of them;And the bright ...
I shall lend mine ear, Lord, listening.No confusion of the day shall appall me,Neither the awesome expanse of night.I shall ...
Behold the cup. 'Tis a bitter quaff.Behold the grey monk-robe of the day.Behold men who let their eyes see naughtBut ...
Who would pray, let him thenMake his prayer the sheathe of the sword,And not the sword. Let him thenMake his ...
Oh, when I reach the Celestial CityWith grandeur o'erspread, how shrinkingI shall be! I would it were more likeThe things ...
And my hands are laboring with play.Lo, I am cunningly masking labor with theVeil of gaming, letting youth be folliedIn ...
On a certain day of a certain spring,In a certain garden, youthed I stood,Filled of hope, with joy a-spurting.Oh, this ...
If I should sigh, and the day before me hear it,What magic would descend upon it?No light, no blithesome gayety, ...
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