Francis William Bourdillon World Poems

• 1. Excelsior
  If one should strive to reach a star,
  He would not build a ladder high,
  Seek foot by foot to climb so far,
  And step by step ascend the sky;
  ...
• 2. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
  The night has a thousand eyes,
  And the day but one;
  Yet the light of the bright world dies
  With the dying sun.
  ...
• 3. Two Robbers
  When Death from some fair face
  Is stealing life away,
  All weep, save she, the grace
  That earth shall lose today.
  ...
• 4. On The South Downs
  Light falls the rain
  On link and laine,
  After the burning day;
  And the bright scene,
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• 5. Eurydice
  HE came to call me back from death
  To the bright world above.
  I hear him yet with trembling breath
  Low calling, â??O sweet love!
  ...
• 6. Night
  The night has a thousand eyes,
  And the day but one;
  Yet the light of the bright world dies
  With the dying sun.
  ...
• 7. The Chantry Of The Cherubim
  O CHANTRY of the Cherubim,
  Down-looking on the stream!
  Beneath thy boughs the day grows dim;
  Through windows comes the gleam;
  ...

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