But now, until we win the long campaign,
Right must gain Might to conquer and to reign.
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Oh, why are you shining so bright, big Sun,
Do you know that my days of delight are done,Do you know I am going away?If you covered your face with a cloud, I ‘d dreamYou were sorry for me in my pain,And the heads of the flowers all bowed would seemTo be weeping with me in the rain.But why is your head so low,…
You dare to say with perjured lips,
You, whose black trail of butchered shipsBestrews the bed of every seaWhere German submarines have wroughtTheir horrors! Have you never thought, —What you call freedom, men call piracy!Unnumbered ghosts that haunt the waveWhere you have murdered, cry you down;And seamen whom you would not save,Weave now in weed-grown depths a crownOf shame for your imperious…
When the frosty kiss of Autumn in the dark
On the flowers, and the misty morning grievesOver fallen leaves;Then my olden garden, where the golden soilThrough the toilOf a hundred years is mellow, rich, and deep,Whispers in its sleep.‘Mid the crumpled beds of marigold and phlox,Where the boxBorders with its glossy green the ancient walks,There’s a voice that talksOf the human hopes that bloomed…
Through many a land your journey ran,
Now tell me, traveller, if you can,The place that pleased you most.’She laid her hands upon my breast,And murmured gently in my ear,‘The place I loved and liked the bestWas in your arms, my dear!’
‘God said I am tired of kings.’ — EMERSON
But that was a long while ago!And meantime man said, ‘No,–I like their looks in their robes and rings.’So he crowned a few more,And they went on playing the game as before,Fighting and spoiling things.Man said, ‘I am tired of kings!Sons of the robber-chiefs of yore,They make me pay for their lust and their war;I…
If I have erred in showing all my heart,
If standing like a beggar at your sideWith naked feet, I have forgot the artOf those who bargain well in passion’s mart,And win the thing they want by what they hide;Be mine the fault as mine the hope denied,Be mine the lover’s and the loser’s part.The sin, if sin it was, I do repent,And take…