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Now that I kneel at the throne, O… Pity and pardon me. Much have I striven to sing the s… Brother of beast and tree; Yet when the stars catch me alone
Sunder me from my bones, O sword… Till they stand stark and strange… That I whose heart goes up with t… May marvel as much at these. Sunder me from my blood that in th…
A cloud was on the mind of men, an… Yea, a sick cloud upon the soul wh… Science announced nonentity and ar… The world was old and ended: but y… Round us in antic order their crip…
“Ill fares the land, to hastening… Where Wealth accumulates and Men… So rang of old the noble voice in… O’er the Last Peasants wandering… Doom has reversed the riddle and t…
You whom the kings saluted; who re… The one great pleasure of ignoble… Fame without name and glory withou… Whom no biographer befouls with pr… Who said of you “Defeated”? In th…
As the sea flooding the flat sands Flew on the sea-born horde, The two hosts shocked with dust an… Left of the Latian paladin, Clanged all Prince Harold’s howli…
Before the Roman came to Rye or o… The rolling English drunkard made… A reeling road, a rolling road, th… And after him the parson ran, the… A merry road, a mazy road, and suc…
Other loves may sink and settle, o… But I wander like a minstrel with… Though the harp be on my bosom, th… Still, my hope is all before me; f… In your strings is hid a music tha…
The sun was black with judgment, a… Blood: but between I saw a man stand, saying: ‘To me… The grass is green. ’There was no star that I forgot…
Lo! I am come to autumn, When all the leaves are gold; Grey hairs and golden leaves cry o… The year and I are old. In youth I sought the prince of m…
There is heard a hymn when the pan… And never before or again, When the nights are strong with a… And the dark is alive with rain. Never we know but in sleet and in…
From the Wood of the Old Wives’… They glittered out of the grey, And with all the Armies of Elf-la… I strove like a beast at bay; With only a right arm wearied,
When God turned back eternity and… Ancient of Days, grown little for… (As under the low arch the land is… Peered through you, gate of heaven… Or shutting out his shining skies…
Heaven shall forgive you Bridge a… The clothes you wear—or do not wea… And Ladies’ Leap-frog on the lawn And dyes and drugs, and petits ver… Your vicious things shall melt in…
Passionate peace is in the sky— And in the snow in silver sealed The beasts are perfect in the fiel… And men seem men so suddenly— (But take ten swords and ten times…