John Davidson Sun Poems

  • 1.
    There is a dish to hold the sea,
    A brazier to contain the sun,
    A compass for the galaxy,
    A voice to wake the dead and done!
    ...
  • 2.
    A monster taught
    To come to hand
    Amain,
    As swift as thought
    ...
  • 3.
    The war of words is done;
    The red-lipped cannon speak;
    The battle has begun.

    ...
  • 4.
    Athwart the sky a lowly sigh
    From west to east the sweet wind carried;
    The sun stood still on Primrose Hill;
    His light in all the city tarried:
    ...
  • 5.
    I couldn't touch a stop and turn a screw,
    And set the blooming world a-work for me,
    Like such as cut their teeth -- I hope, like you --
    On the handle of a skeleton gold key;
    ...
  • 6.
    ‘O which is the last rose?'
    A blossom of no name.
    At midnight the snow came;
    At daybreak a vast rose,
    ...
Total 6 Sun Poems by John Davidson

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The Killing Place
 by Edgar Albert Guest

We're hiking along at a two-forty pace
We 're making life seem like a man-killing race,
With our nerves all on edge and our jaws firmly set
We go rushing along; with our brows lined with sweat
And our cheeks pale and drawn every minute we dash,
And the goal that we 're after is merely more cash.

We 're out for the money, the greenbacks and gold,
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