A GLEAM — a gleam — from Ida’s height, By the Fire-god sent, it came; From watch to watch it leapt, that light, As a rider rode the flame! It shot through the startled sky, And the torch of that blazing glory Old Lemnos caught on high, On its...
Up and lead the dance of Fate! Lift the song that mortals hate! Tell what rights are ours on earth, Over all of human birth. Swift of foot to avenge are we! He whose hands are clean and pure, Naught our wrath to dread hath he; Calm his cloudless days endure....
A Death Song: What cometh here from west to east awending? And who are these, the marchers stern and slow? We bear the message that the rich are sending Aback to those who bade them wake and know. Not one, not one, nor thousands must they slay, But one and all...
And this will be all? And the gates will never open again? And the dust and the wind will play around the rusty door hinges and the songs of October moan, Why-oh, why-oh? And you will look to the mountains And the mountains will look to you And you will wish...
Someday Just someday When I shall sleep and wake up no more Thence I shall be layed Scraps of dust and bones Deep beneath the lonely earth I shall be an invisible guest in my funeral Wherefore I shall be accounted for My innermost secrets shall be revealed And my...
1, A flare flash of light As a rush of a whispering wind The world someday faded As flower decayed and withered away All its whims and ecstasies Toils and the anxious strives The chase for gratifications and what only pleasure accomplished All bowed vain, accounting...
