Edward Shanks Deep Poems

  • 1.
    Lovers that drug themselves for ecstasy
    Seek love too closely in an overdose,
    When the sweet spasm turns to agony
    And the quick limbs are still and the eyes close.
    ...
  • 2.
    Daphne is running, running through the grass,
    The long stalks whip her ankles as she goes.
    I saw the nymph, the god, I saw them pass
    And how a mounting flush of tender rose
    ...
  • 3.
    My lovely one, be near to me to-night.
    For now I need you most, since I have gone
    Through the sparse woodland in the fading light,
    Where in time past we two have walked alone,
    ...
  • 4.
    Blow harder, wind, and drive
    My blood from hands and face back to the heart.
    Cry over ridges and down tapering coombs,
    Carry the flying dapple of the clouds
    ...
  • 5.
    The time is all so short. One week is much
    To be without your deep and peaceful eyes,
    Your soft and all-contenting cheek, the touch
    Of well-caressing hands. O were we wise
    ...
  • 6.
    Infinite peace is hanging in the air,
    Infinite peace is resting on mine eyes,
    That just an hour ago learnt how to bear
    Seeing your body's flaming harmonies.
    ...
  • 7.
    We're at the world's top now. The hills around
    Stand proud in order with the valleys deep,
    The hills with pastures drest, with tall trees crowned,
    And the low valleys dipt in sunny sleep.
    ...
  • 8.
    This is the valley where we sojourn now,
    Cut up by narrow brooks and rich and green
    And shaded sweetly by the waving bough
    About the trench where floats the soft serene
    ...
  • 9.
    The pale road winds faintly upward into the dark skies,
    And beside it on the rough grass that the wind invisibly stirs,
    Sheltered by sharp-speared gorse and the berried junipers,
    Shining steadily with a green light, the glow-worm lies.
    ...
Total 9 Deep Poems by Edward Shanks

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Psalm 119 Part 10
 by Isaac Watts

Pleading the promises.

ver. 38,49

Behold thy waiting servant, Lord,
Devoted to thy fear;
Remember and confirm thy word,
For all my hopes are there.
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