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 ...
We built a ship upon the stairs All made of the back-bedroom chairs, And filled it full of soft pillows ...
AS in their flight the birds of song Halt here and there in sweet and sunny dales, But halt not ...
MY Martial owns a garden, famed to please, Beyond the glades of the Hesperides; Along Janiculum lies the chosen block ...
FIXED is the doom; and to the last of years Teacher and taught, friend, lover, parent, child, Each walks, though ...
COME, my little children, here are songs for you; Some are short and some are long, and all, all are ...
With half a heart I wander here As from an age gone by A brother yet- though young in years, ...
AS Love and Hope together Walk by me for a while, Link-armed the ways they travel For many a pleasant ...
NOW bare to the beholder's eye Your late denuded bindings lie, Subsiding slowly where they fell, A disinvested citadel; The ...
SMALL is the trust when love is green In sap of early years; A little thing steps in between And ...
Great is the sun, and wide he goes Through empty heaven with repose; And in the blue and glowing days ...
From breakfast on through all the day At home among my friends I stay, But every night I go abroad ...
THOU strainest through the mountain fern, A most exiguously thin Burn. For all thy foam, for all thy din, Thee ...
WHEN my young lady has grown great and staid, And in long raiment wondrously arrayed, She may take pleasure with ...
It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink, With little children saying grace In ...
AS one who having wandered all night long In a perplexed forest, comes at length In the first hours, about ...
YOU fear, Ligurra - above all, you long - That I should smite you with a stinging song. This dreadful ...
FLOWER god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in ...
I AM like one that for long days had sate, With seaward eyes set keen against the gale, On some ...
IT blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews ...
MAN sails the deep awhile; Loud runs the roaring tide; The seas are wild and wide; O'er many a salt, ...
NOW when the number of my years Is all fulfilled, and I From sedentary life Shall rouse me up to ...
SO live, so love, so use that fragile hour, That when the dark hand of the shining power Shall one ...
SWALLOWS travel to and fro, And the great winds come and go, And the steady breezes blow, Bearing perfume, bearing ...
At evening when the lamp is lit, Around the fire my parents sit; They sit at home and talk and ...
THOUGH deep indifference should drowse The sluggish life beneath my brows, And all the external things I see Grow snow-showers ...
NOT thine where marble-still and white Old statues share the tempered light And mock the uneven modern flight, But in ...
MOTLEY I count the only wear That suits, in this mixed world, the truly wise, Who boldly smile upon despair ...
AT last she comes, O never more In this dear patience of my pain To leave me lonely as before, ...
NOW Antoninus, in a smiling age, Counts of his life the fifteenth finished stage. The rounded days and the safe ...
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