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A Lament
© Julius Stanley de Vere Alexander
The Broussa evening fades in night;The stars appear serene and bright;Ah! would that they might shed their lightOn you and me together.
And this my hope sits high for time must pass
© Julius Stanley de Vere Alexander
NINETEEN SONNETS(OLD STYLE)
A Prayer for Grace
© Joussaye Marie
God grant me grace,Whenever I attempt a kindly deed,To help another in the hour of need; To do it cheerfully with smiling faceAnd willing hands, nor ever stop to heedThe sneers of those whose narrow souls and creed For Christ's broad charity can find no place
Awakener
© Hyde Robin
But rain slides round us now, a fine grey cloudLike the wraith castle in a fairy tale,Sheltering those hearts that could not quite prevailWith the bold gules and azure, painted proudOn earth's sure banners
An Agnostic Hymn
© Huxley Henrietta Anne Heathorn
Oh! not the unreasoning God for me,Foreseeing, knowing allThat in the wondrous world he madeHis creatures should befall.
America
© Hovey Richard
We came to birth in battle; when we pass,It shall be to the thunder of the drums
A Shropshire Lad LXII: "Terence, this is stupid stuff
© Alfred Edward Housman
"Terence, this is stupid stuff:You eat your victuals fast enough;There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear,To see the rate you drink your beer
Absence, Hear thou my Protestation
© John Moses Hoskyns
Absence, hear thou my protestation Against thy strength, Distance and length:Do what thou canst for alteration; For hearts of truest mettle Absence doth join, and time doth settle.
Advise to Young Ladies
© Alec Derwent Hope
A.U.C. 334: about this dateFor a sexual misdemeanour, which she denied,The vestal virgin Postumia was tried.Livy records it among affairs of state.
A Croon on Hennacliff
© Robert Stephen Hawker
I. Unto his hungry mate, --"Ho! gossip! for Bude Haven: There be corpses six or eight.Cawk! cawk! the crew and skipper, Are wallowing in the sea:So there's a savoury supper For my old dame and me."
A Charm for a Mad Woman
© Gabriel Harvey
O heavenly med'cine, panacea high,Restore this raging woman to her health,More worth than hugest sums of worldly wealth,Exceedingly more worth than any wealth.
A Mid-summer Noon in the Australian Forest
© Charles Harpur
Not a bird disturbs the air,There is quiet everywhere;Over plains and over woods.What a mighty stillness broods.
At the College
© Greene Richard
Serpentine, the path unwinds its innocencefrom building to building in flickering shadewhere my students feed lazy raccoons muffins
A Double Vision
© Gotlieb Phyllis
Goggling with weak-muscled and diplopic eyesat the round oracle of my spectacular worldI note that my right eye has a tendency to emphasizethe dominant colours and myleft the recessives(so that what's plain to one eyethe other may see purled)
for instance: what's blood to my good right eyeis tomato juice to my leftand where my left eyesees the hard blue skyit's summer haze to the sightof my right
A Discourse
© Gotlieb Phyllis
the skeleton's the most articu-late thing there is exceptabout Who made him
A Catful of Buttermilk
© Gotlieb Phyllis
it 's a bird, it 's a plane, it 's apain in the neck, it 's a thornin the flesh, it 'sA CATFUL OF BUTTERMILK
as I was walking down the street
© Gotlieb Phyllis
as I was walking down the streetwho should I meet but my two feetI said how do you dowhat 's new with you?they said who do you think you 're talkin towe haven't got immortal soulswe need a retreadI saidha
