Bernard O'dowd Hope Poems

  • 1.
    Enlaced with gardened jewelry
    My basking villas nest
    Where sifted sunshine soothes the eye
    And cosy hillocks rest.
    ...
  • 2.
    Come Jack, our place is with the ruck
    On the open road today,
    Not with the tepid "footpath sneak"
    Or with the wise who stop away.
    ...
  • 3.
    I wonder if the spell, the mystery,
    That like a haze about your silence clings,
    Moulding your void until we seem to see
    Tangible Presences of Deathless Things,
    ...
  • 4.
    Yet what were Love if man remains unfree,
       And woman's sunshine sordid merchandise:
    If children's Hope is blasted ere they see
       Its shoots of youth from out the branchlets rise:
    ...
  • 5.
    THE SUNNY rounds of Earth contain
    An obverse to its Day,
    Our fertile VagrancyĆ¢??s domain,
    Wan Proletaria.
    ...
  • 6.
    I know not why I love your baffling face,
    Or, lonely, to your cold caresses steal,
    Or what the charm persuades my wearied eyes
    Follow the clues that gleam and, wavering, go,
    ...
Total 6 Hope Poems by Bernard O'dowd

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