Gloria Mundi (Walter de la Mare Poems)
Upon a bank, easeless with knobs of gold,Beneath a canopy of noonday smoke,I saw a measureless Beast, morose and bold,With ...
Upon a bank, easeless with knobs of gold,Beneath a canopy of noonday smoke,I saw a measureless Beast, morose and bold,With ...
Jagg'd mountain peaks and skies ice-greenWall in the wild, cold scene below.Churches, farms, bare copse, the seaIn freezing quiet of ...
As I was walking,Thyme sweet to my nose,Green grasshoppers talking,Rose rivalling rose:And wing, like amber,Dispread in light,As from bush to ...
As I mused by the hearthside,Puss said to me;'there burns the fire , man,and here sit we.Four walls around usagainst ...
I can't abear a butcher,I can't abide his meat,The ugliest shop of all is his,The ugliest in the street;Bakers' are ...
All but blindIn his chambered hole,Gropes for wormsThe four-clawed mole.All but blindIn the burning day,The barn owlBlunders on her way.And ...
Hi! Handsome hunting man,Fire your little gun,Bang! Now that animalIs dead and dumb and done.Never more to peep again, creep ...
Here lies a most beautiful lady, Light of step and heart was she; I think she was the most beautiful ...
When Susan's work was done, she'd sit With one fat guttering candle lit, And window opened wide to win The ...
"Sweep thy faint strings, Musician, With thy long lean hand; Downward the starry tapers burn, Sinks soft the waning sand; ...
Far are the shades of Arabia, Where the Princes ride at noon, 'Mid the verdurous vales and thickets, Under the ...
Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon; This way, and that, she peers, and sees ...
Coral and clear emerald, And amber from the sea, Lilac-coloured amethyst, Chalcedony; The lovely Spirit of Air Floats on a ...
Most wounds can Time repair; But some are mortal -- these: For a broken heart there is no balm, No ...
No breath of wind, No gleam of sun - Still the white snow Whirls softly down Twig and bough And ...
Grief hath pacified her face; Even hope might share so still a place; Yet, on the silence of her heart, ...
Said Mr. Smith, "I really cannot Tell you, Dr. Jones- The most peculiar pain I'm in- I think it's in ...
Some one came knocking At my wee, small door; Someone came knocking; I'm sure-sure-sure; I listened, I opened, I looked ...
Tom told his dog called Tim to beg, And up at once he sat, His two clear amber eyes fixed ...
When I lie where shades of darkness Shall no more assail mine eyes, Nor the rain make lamentation When the ...
In sea-cold Lyonesse, When the Sabbath eve shafts down On the roofs, walls, belfries Of the foundered town, The Nereids ...
Wide are the meadows of night, And daisies are shinng there, Tossing their lovely dews, Lustrous and fair; And through ...
One night as Dick lay half asleep, Into his drowsy eyes A great still light began to creep From out ...
If I were Lord of Tartary, Myself, and me alone, My bed should be of ivory, Of beaten gold my ...
When the rose is faded, Memory may still dwell on Her beauty shadowed, And the sweet smell gone. That vanishing ...
The last of last words spoken is, Good-bye - The last dismantled flower in the weed-grown hedge, The last thin ...
Come, Death, I'd have a word with thee; And thou, poor Innocency; And Love -- a lad with broken wing; ...
Ever, ever Stir and shiver The reeds and rushes By the river: Ever, ever, As if in dream, The lone ...
Nay, nay, sweet England, do not grieve! Not one of these poor men who died But did within his soul ...
Peace in thy hands, Peace in thine eyes, Peace on thy brow; Flower of a moment in the eternal hour, ...
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