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Leon Gellert's Poetry, by popularity

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  • The Change
    Last year I heard the songs of birds,
    And heard the trumpets of the bees.
    23 lines
  • The Hawk
    Swoop! Swoop!
    From dizzy skies thou singest
    42 lines
  • Rapine
    She came from some still mossiness
    Of quiet ways; and stood with modest hands;
    14 lines
  • The Soul Forsaken
    Head-bowed I stood before the Gates of
    God,
    39 lines
  • The Consumptive
    The stars, the fields, will know him never-
                      more;
    15 lines
  • The Dreamer
    He lay within a neat white-sheeted bed,
    And stared at distance with his wide young eyes:-
    10 lines
  • The Epileptic
    His splendid heart is set within a frame
    Of manly massiveness, and giant limbs.
    13 lines
  • The Return
    I have come home again!
    Dawn is a dream to me
    30 lines
  • The Wrecked Aeroplane
    Unhappy craft of Daedalus reborn,
    That liest prone with white wings torn,
    41 lines
  • Sights
    I saw a singer singing to a crowd,-
    Singing of laughing life,- and all the while
    13 lines
  • The Cripple
    He totters round and dangles those odd shapes
    That were his legs. His eyes are never dim.
    14 lines
  • The Blind Man
    Within a corner of this windowed room
    He sits, and seldom speaks, and seldom
    15 lines
  • The Old and the New
    Mars! Mars!
    Thy clashing sword was keen
    17 lines
  • Patience
    Red! Red! Red!
    Is there no black?
    22 lines
  • The Song’s End
    Where will the song end? Here?
    Here by the stretching arc
    20 lines
  • Lost!
    A moon upon a moonlit sea
    To me thou art;
    22 lines
  • The Dead
    These there were, who lost their everything.
    Gave all! And left the earth a vaster sphere
    15 lines
  • Lemnos Revisited
    Lemnos! Lemnos! Thine enfolding arms
    Have held too much, they patterned hills are over shorn
    13 lines
  • Lemnos Visited
    Oh Peace! The Peace I knew. I thought thee dead!
    And had not hoped again to see thy smile.
    13 lines
  • Lemnos Harbour
    The island sleeps,-but it has no delight
    For em, to whom that sleep has been unkind.
    47 lines
  • The Death
    I’m hit. It’s come at last, I feel a smart
    Of needles in ……My God …. I’m hit again!
    14 lines
  • The House Delirious
    Come in and tread thou quietly
    Within the duskiness.
    150 lines
  • The True Dawn
    Go, false dawn, that cometh as a child
    With yellow curls!
    32 lines
  • Bluebeard’s First Wife
    I lie by the garden wall,
    Buried and all alone;
    49 lines
  • Again the Clash is East
    Again the clash is East, the Gates are barred.
    The rolling echoes of of Troy arise
    14 lines
  • Fever!
    Everything seems lost and gone.
    The world seems void; and I alone
    70 lines
  • Mockery
    I met my love a-weeping,
    Weeping in the night-tide pale;
    30 lines
  • Blind!
    A red-roofed house is shining to the skies;
    A house red-roofed and brilliant in  the wind:
    13 lines
  • Memories
    I see wild waves that break, and breaking-run;
    And the wild sea-birds wheeling round the ships;
    14 lines
  • Dejection
    Point thy battered prow to the dark shore
    Thou hoary son of Erebus, and dip thy blades
    30 lines
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