The Eunuch (Ralph Chaplin Poems)
(To those who fight on the side of the Powers of Darkness) Once a Eunuch by the palace In the sunset's fading ...
Ralph Chaplin Poems on Night (9 Poems)
Up From Your Knees (Ralph Chaplin Poems)
(Air: "Song of a Thousand Years") Up from your knees, ye cringing serf men! What have ye gained by whines and tears? Rise! ...
Wesley Everest (Ralph Chaplin Poems)
(Mutilated and murdered at Centralia, Washington,November 11th, 1919, by a mob of "respectable"businessmen.) Torn and defiant as a wind-lashed reed, Wounded he ...
Prison Reveille (Ralph Chaplin Poems)
Out through the iron doorway, bolted strong, I see the night guard's shadow on the wall. The bugle sounds its thin, white ...
Night In The Cell House (Ralph Chaplin Poems)
Tier over tier they rise to dizzy height-- The cells of men who know the world no more. Silence intense from ceiling ...
Distances (Ralph Chaplin Poems)
Above the moist earth, tremulous and bright, The stars creep forth--stars that I cannot see; And to my cell steals, oh, so ...
Prison Shadows (Ralph Chaplin Poems)
Like grey-winged phantoms out of sullen skies They flood our cells and seem to fashion there I know not what dim landscapes ...
Song Of Separation (Ralph Chaplin Poems)
Two that I love must live alone, Far away. All in the world I can call my own, Only they. Mother and boy in ...
Phantoms (Ralph Chaplin Poems)
Ghost of a mountain And ghost of a moon; Night birds sink droopingly Over the dune Clouds drifting hazily Stars blurring through; Darkness come close to ...