Tag: poems
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Oscar Of Alva – P3
Once to those eyes the Lamp of Love, They blessed her dear propitious light But now she glimmer’d from above A sad, funeral torch of night.
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Oscar Of Alva – P2
And on the crimson’d rocks beneath, Which scowl o’er ocean’s sullen flow, Pale in the scatter’d ranks of death, She saw the grasping warrior low While many an eye which ne’er again, Could mark the rising orb of the day, Turn’d feebly from the gory plain Beheld in death her fading ray.
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Oscar Of Alva – P1
How sweetly shines through azure skies The lamp of heaven on Lora’s shore Where Alva’s hoary turrets rise And hear the din of arms no more! But often has yon rolling moon On Alva’s casques of silver play’d And view’d, at midnight’s silent noon Her chiefs in gleaming mail array’d
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Rubaiyat #20
Oh, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears To-day of past Regrets and future Fears – To-morrow? – Why, to-morrow I may be Myself with Yesterday’s Sev’n Thousand Years.
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Rubaiyat #19
And this delightful Herb whose tender Green Fledges the River’s Lip on which we lean – Ah, lean upon it lightly! for who knows From what once Lovely Lip it springs unseen!
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Rubaiyat #18
I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled ; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in its Lap from some once Lovely Head.
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Rubaiyat #17
They say the Lion and the Lizard keep The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep ; And Bahram, that great Hunter – the Wild Ass Stamps o’er his Head, and he lies fast asleep.
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Rubaiyat #16
Think, in this batter’d Caravanserai Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his Hour or two, and went his way.
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Rubaiyat #15
And those who husbanded the Golden Grain, And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain, Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn’d As, buried once, Men want dug up again.
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Rubaiyat #14
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turn Ashes – or its prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face Lighting a little Hour or two – is gone.
THE NECROMANCER 