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Those blossoms haunt the rocks - James Elroy Flecker "Areiya"

Those old rocks break the hill that we the heights should win - James Elroy Flecker "Areiya"

Your ramparts green with briar fortify - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"

Dark militia of the southern shore - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"

The falsest of fair tales - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"

Spectres of the foam riding the summer gales - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"

Ancient days in endless dynasty - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"

Windy odors light as thistledown - James Elroy Flecker "Brumana"

Augustine with his feet of snow - James Elroy Flecker "The Dying Patriot"

Robed in red and sea-lilies - James Elroy Flecker "The Dying Patriot"

Where the fleet of stars is anchored - James Elroy Flecker "The Dying Patriot"

My road along the river of return - James Elroy Flecker "A Fragment"

Countries where the white moons burn - James Elroy Flecker "A Fragment"

On the pale and crystal desert hills - James Elroy Flecker "A Fragment"

Lured young Achilles from his haunted sleep - James Elroy Flecker "A Fragment"

And paints the shadows green and red - James Elroy Flecker "The Gates of Damascus"

With songs beguile your pilgrimage - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

That Beauty lives though lilies die - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Where nevermore the rose of sunset pales - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

And winds and shadows fall toward the West - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Cutting its pathway slow and red and deep - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Those long caravans that cross the plain - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

With dauntless feet and sound of silver bells - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Put forth no more for glory or for gain - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Take no more solace from the palm-girt wells - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

And such sweet jams meticulously jarred - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

We shall go always a little further - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

To ride forth at evening from the wells - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

When shadows pass gigantic on the sands - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

By hotter winds our fiery hearts are fanned - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

For lust of knowing what should not be known - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

Unwise and curiously planned - James Elroy Flecker "The Golden Journey to Samarkand"

In fire the great boat beats the seas - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"

Gleaming fish that gasp in the death-bright dawn - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"

Tell me no tale how Romans built - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"

That bearded lords rowed by to fight for Venice - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"

Thy rocks shall down through time endure - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"

From Troy's doom-crimson shore - James Elroy Flecker "The Old Ships"

The power to Midas given of old - James Elroy Flecker "The Queen's Song"

And leave a metal grace, a graven joy - James Elroy Flecker "The Queen's Song"

And drive away the rose to leave a shell - James Elroy Flecker "The Queen's Song"

Until I was but dust, buried unknown - James Elroy Flecker "The Queen's Song"

Drops the moonlight through my heart - James Elroy Flecker "Santorin"

The mirrors of the sea are strewn - James Elroy Flecker "A Ship, an Isle, a Sickle Moon"

When the bolt lies deep in the door - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"

From the clock's last chime to the next - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"

Space with gaunt grey eyes and her brother Time - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"

Wheeling and whispering come - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"

I am emptied of all my dreams - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"

Only see ether's long bankless streams - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"

They who come faster than fate - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"

With the sun or the moon for a lamp - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"

Our star to shine on the ruins of Rum - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"

Where the Waters of Destiny boom - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"

And the sword was a broker of doom - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"

Physician who cured not a few of ambition - James Elroy Flecker "War Song of the Saracens"

When the silver dove descends - James Elroy Flecker "Yasmin"


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