Poems
02.09.2010 / 20.50 pm
 
by Arthur Albert Dawson Bayldon
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The weary wind is slumbering on the wing:
Leaping from out meek twilight's purpling blue
Burns the proud star of eve as though it knew
It was the big king jewel quivering
On the black turban of advancing night.
In the dim west the soldiers of the sun
Strike all their royal colours one by one,
Reluctantly surrender every height.


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To Poesy

These vessels of verse, O Great Goddess, are filled with invisible tears,
With the sobs and sweat of my spirit and her desolate brooding for years;
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Marlowe

With eastern banners flaunting in the breeze
Royal processions, sounding fife and gong
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The Sea

Ere Greece soared, showering sovranties of light,
Ere Rome shook earth with her tremendous tread,
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In The Cool Of The Evening

I thought I heard Him calling. Did you hear
A sound, a little sound? My curious ear
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This

This is what I most want
unpursued, alone
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The Steadfast Shepherd

Hence away, thou siren, leave me,
Pish! unclasp those wanton arms,
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The Apostasy

One star
Is better far
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The Tropics

LOVE we the warmth and light of tropic lands,
The strange bright fruit, the feathery fanspread leaves,
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