She dwelt on the hillside by the edge of a maize-field, near the spring that flows in laughing rills through the solemn shadows of ancient trees. The women came there to fill their jars, and travellers would sit there to rest and talk. She worked and dreamed daily to the tune of the bubbling stream.<br><br>One evening the stranger came down from the cloud-hidden peak; his locks were tangled like drowsy snakes. We asked in wonder, &am ...
1<br><br>STRAY birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away.<br><br>And yellow leaves of autumn, which have no songs, flutter and fall there with a sigh.<br><br>2<br><br>O TROUPE of little vagrants of the world, leave your footprints in my words.<br><br>3<br><br>THE world puts off its mask of vastness to its lover.<br><br>It becomes small as one song, a ...
I PACED alone on the road across the field while the sunset was hiding its last gold like a miser.<br><br>The daylight sank deeper and deeper into the darkness, and the widowed land, whose harvest had been reaped, lay silent.<br><br>Suddenly a boy's shrill voice rose into the sky. He traversed the dark unseen, leaving the track of his song across the hush of the evening.<br><br>His village home lay the ...
Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.<br><br>This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.<br><br>At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.<br><br>Thy infinite gifts co ...
Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home:<br><br>Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine.<br><br>Long through thy weary crowds I roam;<br><br>A river-ark on the ocean brine,<br><br>Long I've been tossed like the driven foam:<br><br>But now, proud world! I'm going home.<br><br>Good-bye to Flattery's fawning face;<br><br>To Gr ...
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of short poems by Geoffrey Chaucer:<br><br>The Book of the Duchess<br>The House of Fame<br>The Parliament of Fowles<br>Truth<br>Gentilesse<br>Merciles Beaute<br>Lak of Stedfastnesse ...
The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 18 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content.<br><br>The poetry of Walter de la Mare sings boldly and beautifully without any of these hedges and condescensions. His work has the honest candor of the border ballads and the fairy tales: as well as unmitigated joys, they are full of the dangers and horrors and sorrows that every child so ...
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Edna St. Vincent Millay<br><br>ARIA DA CAPO<br>A Few Figs from Thistles<br>The Lamp and the Bell<br>Renascence and Other Poems<br>Second April ...
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of poetry by Arthur Conan Doyle<br><br>Table Of Contents<br>A Lilt Of The Road<br>Corporal Dick's Promotion<br>Cremona<br>The Farnshire Cup<br>The Passing<br>THE GUARDS CAME THROUGH<br>VICTRIX<br>THOSE OTHERS<br>HAIG IS MOVING<br>THE GUNS IN SUSSEX<br>YPRES<br>THE VOLUNTEER<br>THE NIGHT PATROL<br> ...
