Sonnet IV (Philip Henry Savage Poems)
I LOVE the hills but she the open shore,The shore because it lies along the sea.I would be lofty, solitary, ...
I LOVE the hills but she the open shore,The shore because it lies along the sea.I would be lofty, solitary, ...
The extreme beauty and the dear delight,Wherewith the world accosts me as I go,Catch up the heart, and like a ...
I dare not think that thou art by, to standAnd face omnipotence so near at hand!When I consider thee how ...
In long, slow silences of soulBeneath the sunset on the seaI think I hear the numbers rollThat tell my conquest ...
When I look on OssipeeNot the hill alone I see;Not the hill I see to-dayFair and large and distant gray,But ...
WHAT shall I speak, what phrases here compose,To tell the love that gathers close, and flowsUp to the very lips, ...
Like a dead leaf that rolls along the ground,Driven by a wind that wanders round and round,I see my heart, ...
THE flood of life that turned awayIn search of rarer things, the rose,The fragile flower that bursting blows,And as it ...
The flash of sunlight from a bit of glassHas often power to stop me as I pass;And when I turn ...
Still, in the meadow by the brook I layAnd felt the April creep along my streams,Subdue my currents to herself ...
Hot days like this will wound or bless,At home as in the wilderness.The wind, with burning feet,Lingers along the wheat;The ...
I WANDERED on a lonely quest;And deep within a dark for(Philip Henry Savage)
Adam arose at the word of God,Up-borne on the bosom of all the earth;Brother of trees and the black, prone ...
The breath of slowly-moving springStirs the light leaf, the doubtful wing,And tempers each created thing.The tumult of the summer's lifeSurrounds ...
MAXWELL, the master, built aboveHis dog this testament of love,Where, on a granite block incised,These words told how the dog ...
It is long waiting for the dear companions,The friends that come not, though God knows I need them.I smile and ...
What are the limitations hard,Importunate, of time and space,But fences of the prison-yardOf earth, to keep us in our place?Like ...
WITHIN a thicket ere the sunWas up, I heard a whisper run.Each bush and tree was bidding, now,Its yellow leaves ...
Swampscott over the eastern sea,And the western wall of the sea is Lynn;And stroke by stroke on the shingleThe waves ...
A beetle bug has bit my coatAnd ta'en a crescent moon,Whether to muffle round his throatOr felt a pair of ...
DEATH has a power to fright the soul,And unseat courage from control.But when, by love and sorrow led,I passed your ...
HOW clear, when 't is most far from clear,Far sounds across the dark you hear:Approaching wheels, when in the laneThe ...
Here by the brimming April streams,Here is the valley of my dreams.Every garden place is seenStarting up in flames of ...
THE eager frost through all the nightThe oak and walnut leaves did bite.To-day the sun, across the dell,Shone on them ...
The hollow chambers of the moon,The purple barrens of the deep,Do not so cruel silence keepAs you who put your ...
"Believe in me!" Lord, who art thouThat bid'st me to believe in thee?I have my life to live, and nowThy ...
PRAY God to give me power to keepLife's cureless evils out of sight;Nor wander o'er the world and weepThe things ...
Through rain the forest, roof and floor,Is green as it was ne'er before.And, dense along the forest-track,The boles of trees ...
The ivy leaves, (behind the shed),Turned bright and blushed a rosy red.Bit by the frost they sobered down,And now can ...
Brother, Time is a thing how slight!Day lifts and falls, and it is night.Rome stands an hour, and the green ...
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