Category: Poetry
The Three Taverns: A Book of Poems
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Chapters
4. Chapter 4
Ferguson closed his eyes in resignation, While a dead sigh came out of him. "Good God!" He said, and said it only half aloud, As if he knew no longer now, nor cared, If one were...
3. Chapter 3Yes, may they come, and soon. Again I say, May they come soon! -- before too many of them Shall be the bloody cost of our defection. When hell waits on the dawn of a new state,...
1. Chapter 1[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are CAPITALIZED. Lines longer than 78 characters are broken and the continuation is indented two spaces. Some obvious errors may have...
5. Chapter 5Since you remember Nimmo, and arrive At such a false and florid and far drawn Confusion of odd nonsense, I connive No longer, though I may have led you on.
2. Chapter 2The best of life, until we see beyond The shadows of ourselves (and they are less Than even the blindest of indignant eyes Would have them) is in what we do not know. Make, then...
6. Chapter 6"I could not answer that, if that were so," Said Lazarus, -- "not even if I were God. Why should He care whether I came or stayed, If that were so? Why should the Master weep --...