To Marcus (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
YOU have been far, and I Been farther yet, Since last, in foul or fair An impecunious pair, Below this ...
YOU have been far, and I Been farther yet, Since last, in foul or fair An impecunious pair, Below this ...
HERE in the quiet eve My thankful eyes receive The quiet light. I see the trees stand fair Against the ...
O CHIEF director of the growing race, Of Rome the glory and of Rome the grace, Me, O Quintilian, may ...
BEHOLD, as goblins dark of mien And portly tyrants dyed with crime Change, in the transformation scene, At Christmas, in ...
HERE lies Erotion, whom at six years old Fate pilfered. Stranger (when I too am cold, Who shall succeed me ...
Then the bright lamp is carried in, The sunless hours again begin; O'er all without, in field and lane, The ...
God, if this were enough, That I see things bare to the buff And up to the buttocks in mire; ...
LO! in thine honest eyes I read The auspicious beacon that shall lead, After long sailing in deep seas, To ...
MY love was warm; for that I crossed The mountains and the sea, Nor counted that endeavour lost That gave ...
The rain is raining all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on ...
SOON our friends perish, Soon all we cherish Fades as days darken - goes as flowers go. Soon in December ...
When the grass was closely mown, Walking on the lawn alone, In the turf a hole I found And hid ...
How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think ...
THE wind may blaw the lee-gang way And aye the lift be mirk an' gray, An deep the moss and ...
WHAT man may learn, what man may do, Of right or wrong of false or true, While, skipper-like, his course ...
DEAR sir, good-morrow! Five years back, When you first girded for this arduous track, And under various whimsical pretexts Endowed ...
What are you able to build with your blocks? Castles and palaces, temples and docks. Rain may keep raining, and ...
The lights from the parlour and kitchen shone out Through the blinds and the windows and bars; And high overhead ...
HAD I the power that have the will, The enfeebled will - a modern curse - This book of mine ...
YOU, Charidemus, who my cradle swung, And watched me all the days that I was young; You, at whose step ...
LO, now, my guest, if aught amiss were said, Forgive it and dismiss it from your head. For me, for ...
From Child's Garden of Verses I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can ...
Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, ...
WHEN loud by landside streamlets gush, And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush, With sun on the meadows And ...
THE broad sun, The bright day: White sails On the blue bay: The far-farers Draw away. Light the fires And ...
When children are playing alone on the green, In comes the playmate that never was seen. When children are happy ...
The red room with the giant bed Where none but elders laid their head; The little room where you and ...
WHEN the sun comes after rain And the bird is in the blue, The girls go down the lane Two ...
AS when the hunt by holt and field Drives on with horn and strife, Hunger of hopeless things pursues Our ...
HOME from the daisied meadows, where you linger yet - Home, golden-headed playmate, ere the sun is set; For the ...
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