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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD(38)
2023-12-06TO YOUTH O Youth, sweet comrade Youth, wouldst thou be gone? Long have we dwelt together, thou and I; Together drunk of many an alien dawn, And plucke...
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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD(39)
2023-12-06NIGHTFALL IN THE CITY OF HYDERABAD See how the speckled sky burns like a pigeon's throat, Jewelled with embers of opal and peridote. See the white...
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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD(40)
2023-12-06STREET CRIES When dawn's first cymbals beat upon the sky, Rousing the world to labour's various cry, To tend the flock, to bind the mellowing ...
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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD(41)
2023-12-06TO INDIA O young through all thy immemorial years! Rise, Mother, rise, regenerate from thy gloom, And, like a bride high-mated with the spheres, Beget...
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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD(42)
2023-12-06THE ROYAL TOMBS OF GOLCONDA I muse among these silent fanes Whose spacious darkness guards your dust; Around me sleep the hoary plains That hold your ...
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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD(43)
2023-12-06TO A BUDDHA SEATED ON A LOTUS Lord Buddha, on thy Lotus-throne, With praying eyes and hands elate, What mystic rapture dost thou own, Immutable and ul...
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THE GOLDEN THRESHOLD(44)
2023-12-06And Death unweaves the webs of Life. For us the travail and the heat, The broken secrets of our pride, The strenuous lessons of defeat, The flower def...
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A Cradle Song
2023-12-06The angels are stooping Above your bed; They weary of trooping With the whimpering dead. God‘s laughing in Heaven To see you so good; The Sailin...
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Helen of Troy And Other Poems (2)
2023-12-06When Love Was Born When Love was born I think he layRight warm on Venus' breast, And whiles he smiled and whiles would playAnd whiles would take h...
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Helen of Troy And Other Poems (3)
2023-12-06The Shrine There is no lord within my heart,Left silent as an empty shrineWhere rose and myrtle intertwine, Within a place apart. No god is there of c...