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False Gods Austin Anderson	The silver blood rains once again, you must stop the fraud False gods use their unholy power for deceiving Hero, you must stop the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The False Gods Edwin Arlington Robinson	“We are false and evanescent, and aware of our deceit, From the straw that is our vitals to the clay that is our feet. You may serve us if you...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LIV Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	HE DESIRES THE IMPOSSIBLE If it were possible the fierce sun should, Standing in heaven unloved, companionless, Enshrinèd be in some white--bosomed...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LIX Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	THE HAUNTED HOUSE How loud the storm blew all that bitter night! The loosened ivy tapping on the pane Woke me and woke, again and yet again, Till I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LVI Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	TO ONE WHOM HE DARED NOT LOVE As one who, in a desert wandering Alone and faint beneath a pitiless sky, And doubting in his heart if he shall bring...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LVII Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	ON A LOST OPPORTUNITY We might, if you had willed, have conquered Heaven. Once only in our lives before the gate Of Paradise we stood, one fortunate...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LVIII Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	TO ONE ON HER WASTE OF TIME Why practise, love, this small economy Of your heart's favours? Can you keep a kiss To be enjoyed in age? And would the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXI Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	TO ONE EXCUSING HIS POVERTY Ah! love, impute it not to me a sin That my poor soul thus beggared comes to thee. My soul a pilgrim was, in search of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXIV Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	HE APPEALS AGAINST HIS BOND In my distress Love made me sign a bond, A cruel bond. 'Twas by necessity Wrung from a foolish heart, alas, too fond, Too...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXIX Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	SIBYLLINE BOOKS When first, a boy, at your fair knees I kneeled, 'Twas with a worthy offering. In my hand My young life's book I held, a volume...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXV Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	TO ONE WHO SPOKE ILL OF HIM What is your quarrel with me, in love's name, Fair queen of wrath? What evil have I done, What treason to the thought of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXVI Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	THE THREE AGES OF WOMAN Love, in thy youth, a stranger, knelt to thee, With cheeks all red and golden locks all curled, And cried, ``Sweet child, if...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXVII Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	THE SAME CONTINUED Your youth flowed on, a river chaste and fair, Till thirty years were written to your name. A wife, a mother, these the titles...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXVIII Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	THE SAME CONTINUED Again Love left you. With appealing eyes You watched him go, and lips apart to speak. He left you, and once more the sun did rise...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXX Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	ON READING THE MEMOIRS OF M. D'ARTAGNAN Why was I born in this degenerate age? Or rather why, a thousand times, with soul Of such degenerate stuff...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXXII Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	FROM THE FRENCH OF ANVERS My heart has its secret, my soul its mystery, A love which is eternal begotten in a day. The ill is long past healing. Why...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXXIII Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	TO ONE TO WHOM HE HAD BEEN UNJUST If I was angry once that you refused The bread I asked and offered me a stone, Deeming the rights of bounty thus...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXXIV Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	THE MOCKERY OF LIFE God! What a mockery is this life of ours! Cast forth in blood and pain from our mother's womb, Most like an excrement, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXXIX Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	AMOUR OBLIGE I could forgive you, dearest, all the folly Your heart has dreamed. Alas, as we grow old, We need more vigorous cures for melancholy, A...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXXV Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	THE SAME CONTINUED And then fate strikes us. First our joys decay. Youth, with its pleasures, is a tale soon told. We grow a little poorer day by...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXXVI Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	THE SAME CONTINUED And who shall tell what ignominy death Has yet in store for us; what abject fears Even for the best of us; what fights for breath;...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXXVII Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	WHO WOULD LIVE AGAIN? Oh who would live again to suffer loss? Once in my youth I battled with my fate, Grudging my days to death. I would have won A...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXXVIII Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	COLD COMFORT There is no comfort underneath the sun. Youth turns to age; riches are quickly spent; Pride breeds us pain, our pleasures punishment....	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXXX Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	TO ONE UNFORGOTTEN You are not false perhaps, as lovers say Meaning the act,--Alas, that guilt was mine. Nor, maybe, have you bowed at other shrine...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part III: Gods And False Gods: LXXXI Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	TO ONE WHOM HE HAD LOVED TOO LONG Why do I cling to thee, sad love? Too long Thou bringest me neither pleasure to my soul Nor profit to my reason...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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