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 in the sky And on the hearth of Now in a drawer the direful cane, That sceptre of the ...
Whenever Auntie moves around, Her dresses make a curious sound, They trail behind her up the floor, And trundle after ...
MY first gift and my last, to you I dedicate this fascicle of songs - The only wealth I have: ...
Up into the cherry tree Who should climb but little me? I held the trunk with both my hands And ...
I KNOW not how, but as I count The beads of former years, Old laughter catches in my throat With ...
Over the borders, a sin without pardon, Breaking the branches and crawling below, Out through the breach in the wall ...
MINE eyes were swift to know thee, and my heart As swift to love. I did become at once Thine ...
OVER the land is April, Over my heart a rose; Over the high, brown mountain The sound of singing goes. ...
So shall this book wax like unto a well, Fairy with mirrored flowers about the brim, Or like some tarn ...
TEMPEST tossed and sore afflicted, sin defiled and care oppressed, Come to me, all ye that labour; come, and I ...
THE old Chimaeras, old receipts For making "happy land," The old political beliefs Swam close before my hand. The grand ...
"Chief of our aunts"--not only I, But all your dozen of nurselings cry-- "What did the other children do? And ...
TO what shall I compare her, That is as fair as she? For she is fairer - fairer Than the ...
GO(D) knows, my Martial, if we two could be To enjoy our days set wholly free; To the true life ...
In the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfires See the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over ...
TO her, for I must still regard her As feminine in her degree, Who has been my unkind bombarder Year ...
Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle ...
I LOVE to be warm by the red fireside, I love to be wet with rain: I love to be ...
KNOW you the river near to Grez, A river deep and clear? Among the lilies all the way, That ancient ...
FOR some abiding central source of power, Strong-smitten steady chords, ye seem to flow And, flowing, carry virtue. Far below, ...
Summer fading, winter comes-- Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs, Window robins, winter rooks, And the picture story-books. Water now is turned ...
I have a hoard of treasure in my breast; The grange of memory steams against the door, Full of my ...
THE angler rose, he took his rod, He kneeled and made his prayers to God. The living God sat overhead: ...
AGAIN I hear you piping, for I know the tune so well, - You rouse the heart to wander and ...
OUR Johnie's deid. The mair's the pity! He's deid, an' deid o' Aqua-vitae. O Embro', you're a shrunken city, Noo ...
If two may read aright These rhymes of old delight And house and garden play, You too, my cousins, and ...
O NEPOS, twice my neigh(b)our (since at home We're door by door, by Flora's temple dome; And in the country, ...
AWAY with funeral music - set The pipe to powerful lips - The cup of life's for him that drinks ...
WITH caws and chirrupings, the woods In this thin sun rejoice. The Psalm seems but the little kirk That sings ...
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