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SEE the flying French depart Like the bees of Bonaparte, Swarming up with a most venomous v… Over Baden and Bavaria, And Brighton and Bulgaria,
There’s a sound of the flutes and… In the island of Nevercometrue; In a fire-lit isle in the seas of… Black with depth of blue; And the man that might have been…
I have come forth alive from the l… Where the charm is strong as the t… Torture of wordless dance and wine… Palace hidden in palace, garden wi… Women veiled in the sun, or bare a…
A mountainous and mystic brute No rein can curb, no arrow shoot, Upon whose doomed deformed back I sweep the planets’ scorching tra… Old is the elf, and wise, men say,
Many have Earth’s lovers been, Tried in seas and wars, I ween; Yet the mightiest have I seen: Yea, the best saw I. One that in a field alone
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,
Little Blue-Fits has lost his wit… And doesn’t know where to find the… Leave them alone and they’ll come… And leave their tales behind them. The remarkable tales, with remarka…
Said the Lord God, “Build a hous… Build it in the gorge of death, Found it in the throats of hell. Where the lost sea muttereth, Fires and whirlwinds, build it wel…
The Symbol The speaking at the Rotary is Pra… The talking at the Rotary turns m… But both require an Emblem; and a… When you argue in a circle and do…
[From a souvenir programme produced for a fund raising benefit in London on 14th May 1912, for those affected by the sinking of the Titanic just a month previously. It includes poems an...
The gallows in my garden, people s… Is new and neat and adequately tal… I tie the noose on in a knowing wa… As one that knots his necktie for… But just as all the neighbours—on…
A word came forth in Galilee, a w… It climbed and rang and blessed an… A word of sudden secret hope, of t… Of wrath and pity fused in fire, a… A star that o’er the citied world…
If I had been a Heathen, I’d have praised the purple vine, My slaves should dig the vineyards… And I would drink the wine. But Higgins is a Heathen,
When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: “Ah, yes, when one is young, one has these ideals in the abstract and these cas...
Michael, Michael: Michael of the… Michael of the Army of the Lord, Stiffen thou the hand upon the sti… Folded and shut upon the sheathed… Under the fullness of the white ro…