Thomas Edward Brown Heart Poems
- 1. A Morning Walk
"Lie there," I said, "my Sorrow! lie thou there!
And I will drink the lissome air,
And see if yet the heavens have gained their blue."
Then rose my Sorrow as an aged man,
... - 2. Statio Tertia
The stream is very sweet
To-day . . . Just see the swallow dart!
How fleet!
It sent a shiver to my heart.
... - 3. Old John
Old John, if I could sit with you a day
At Abram's feet upon the asphodel,
There, while the grand old patriarch dreamed away,
To you my life's whole progress I would tell;
... - 4. Pain
The Man that hath great griefs I pity not;
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In any wise, and hint the larger state,
Though but in shadow of a shade, God wot!
... - 5. Opifex
As I was carving images from clouds,
And tinting them with soft ethereal dyes
Pressed from the pulp of dreams, one comes, and cries:--
"Forbear!" and all my heaven with gloom enshrouds.
... - 6. Risus Dei
Methinks in Him there dwells alway
A sea of laughter very deep,
Where the leviathans leap,
And little children play,
... - 7. Jessie
When Jessie comes with her soft breast,
And yields the golden keys,
Then is it as if God caress'd
Twin babes upon His knees-
... - 8. Dora
She knelt upon her brother's grave,
My little girl of six years old-
He used to be so good and brave,
The sweetest lamb of all our fold;
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