Elizabeth Daryush

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Elizabeth Daryush Dark Poems

  • 1.
    You should at times go out
    from where the faithful kneel,
    visit the slums of doubt
    and feel what the lost feel;
    ...
  • 2.
    Now deserted are the roads
    Where awhile the lovers went;
    Vacant are the field-abodes
    Where a vivid hour they spent:
    ...
  • 3.
    Not that broad path chose he, which whoso wills
    May tread, if he by pay the fatal price,
    And for such sweet as earthly life extils,
    Slaughter his heaven-born soul in sacrifice.
    ...
  • 4.
    Above the grey down
    Gather, wan, the glows;
    Relieved by leaden
    Gleams a star-gang goes;
    ...
Total 4 Dark Poems by Elizabeth Daryush

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