Category: Poetry
The illimitable leaping of the sea, The mouthing of his madness to the moon, The seething of his endless sorcery, His prophecy no power can attune, Swept over me as, on the sounding prow Of a great ship that steered into the stars, I stood and felt the awe upon my brow Of deat...
I woke at night in my eternal tomb The desert sands had hid a thousand years, And heard the Nile-crier across the gloom Calling, "The flood has come! beseech the gods!" I rose i...
1. Chapter 1The illimitable leaping of the sea, The mouthing of his madness to the moon, The seething of his endless sorcery, His prophecy no power can attune, Swept over me as, on the soun...
3. Chapter 3Come to me, shadows, down the hill-- And let there follow Sleep, Which is God's tidal Will That overflows The world--obliterating ill, And in its soothing sweep Murmuring more o...