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 ...
Three and thirty birds there stood In an elder in a wood; Called Melmillo -- flew off three, Leaving thirty ...
While at her bedroom window once, Learning her task for school, Little Louisa lonely sat In the morning clear and ...
When thin-strewn memory I look through, I see most clearly poor Miss Loo, Her tabby cat, her cage of birds, ...
"Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the ...
When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovely things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in ...
'Won't you look out of your window, Mrs. Gill?' Quoth the Fairy, nidding, nodding in the garden; 'Can't you look ...
A song of Enchantment I sang me there, In a green-green wood, by waters fair, Just as the words came ...
'What is the world, O soldiers? It is I: I, this incessant snow, This northern sky; Soldiers, this solitude Through ...
I was at peace until you came And set a careless mind aflame; I lived in quiet; cold, content; All ...
It was the Great Alexander, Capped with a golden helm, Sate in the ages, in his floating ship, In a ...
Thistle and darnell and dock grew there, And a bush, in the corner, of may, On the orchard wall I ...
What lovely things Thy hand hath made: The smooth-plumed bird In its emerald shade, The seed of the grass, The ...
Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So ...
There is wind where the rose was, Cold rain where sweet grass was, And clouds like sheep Stream o'er the ...
As Ann came in one summer's day, She felt that she must creep, So silent was the clear cool house, ...
The abode of the nightingale is bare, Flowered frost congeals in the gelid air, The fox howls from his frozen ...
Three jolly Farmers Once bet a pound Each dance the others would Off the ground. Out of their coats They ...
At the edge of All the Ages A Knight sate on his steed, His armor red and thin with rust ...
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 ...
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