After Reading Antony and Cleopatra (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
AS when the hunt by holt and fieldDrives on with horn and strife,Hunger of hopeless things pursuesOur spirits throughout life.The ...
AS when the hunt by holt and fieldDrives on with horn and strife,Hunger of hopeless things pursuesOur spirits throughout life.The ...
NOW Antoninus, in a smiling age, Counts of his life the fifteenth finished stage. The rounded days and the safe ...
I HAVE left all upon the shameful field, Honour and Hope, my God, and all but life; Spurless, with sword ...
FEAR not, dear friend, but freely live your days Though lesser lives should suffer. Such am I, A lesser life, ...
THE wind may blaw the lee-gang way And aye the lift be mirk an' gray, An deep the moss and ...
Little Indian, Sioux, or Crow, Little frosty Eskimo, Little Turk or Japanee, Oh! don't you wish that you were me? ...
IN Schnee der Alpen - so it runs To those divine accords - and here We dwell in Alpine snows ...
HAIL! Childish slaves of social rules You had yourselves a hand in making! How I could shake your faith, ye ...
NOT thine where marble-still and white Old statues share the tempered light And mock the uneven modern flight, But in ...
Who comes to-night? We open the doors in vain. Who comes? My bursting walls, can you contain The presences that ...
I NOW, O friend, whom noiselessly the snows Settle around, and whose small chamber grows Dusk as the sloping window ...
IN the highlands, in the country places, Where the old plain men have rosy faces, And the young fair maidens ...
KNOW you the river near to Grez, A river deep and clear? Among the lilies all the way, That ancient ...
LOVE - what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair. Life - ...
MEN are Heaven's piers; they evermore Unwearying bear the skyey floor; Man's theatre they bear with ease, Unfrowning cariatides! I, ...
O CHIEF director of the growing race, Of Rome the glory and of Rome the grace, Me, O Quintilian, may ...
NOW when the number of my years Is all fulfilled, and I From sedentary life Shall rouse me up to ...
AS when the hunt by holt and field Drives on with horn and strife, Hunger of hopeless things pursues Our ...
SINCE thou hast given me this good hope, O God, That while my footsteps tread the flowery sod And the ...
AS one who having wandered all night long In a perplexed forest, comes at length In the first hours, about ...
SMALL is the trust when love is green In sap of early years; A little thing steps in between And ...
AWAY with funeral music - set The pipe to powerful lips - The cup of life's for him that drinks ...
The strong man's hand, the snow-cool head of age, The certain-footed sympathies of youth - These, and that lofty passion ...
BEHOLD, as goblins dark of mien And portly tyrants dyed with crime Change, in the transformation scene, At Christmas, in ...
THE relic taken, what avails the shrine? The locket, pictureless? O heart of mine, Art thou not worse than that, ...
COME, my beloved, hear from me Tales of the woods or open sea. Let our aspiring fancy rise A wren's ...
Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the ...
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