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Writhing upward like a trodden snake - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Abraham Carew"

To right old earthly quarrels - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Acheron"

Stretch our ghostly arms - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Acheron"

A sea beyond all time and space - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Acheron"

The fox's short sharp bark - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

The harvest-hymns rise - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Crimson reefs and isles of amber - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Drowns the Sirens' song - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Strife of winds and birds - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

The olive with its fruit of peace - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

The caves where all is mute - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Are made so strange by echo - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Like souls in Hades wailing - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Compel a summer storm's pent thunder - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Scream of battling eagles - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

A chant of women weaving - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

That sea-sprites weave in vain - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

In proof that men grow old - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Crowds of evil fancies wake - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Seeks the thrice-curst mandrake - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Sobs of love whose sound appals - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Faint as sunshine-faded ghosts - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Where run the tidings of return - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Lither than the asp - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Never cease the pure chaste hymns - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Mighty child of the cleft brows of Zeus - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Through my unworthy voice - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

Quit this perilous brink - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

Have wrestled with the Fiend too long - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

The perilous lustre of thy eyes - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

The wreck of perished cities - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

Shaped as a roaring lion - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

Stone heads of sphinxes nod - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

Down the winding stair of love - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Bride of Porphyrion"

Nearly merged in the darkness - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Hunting the King 1792"

Trampled on brushwood and fern - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Hunting the King 1792"

As with hounds on the scent - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Hunting the King 1792"

By tempests of iron and lead - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Hunting the King 1792"

The right of flaying with a nod - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Introduction"

Of bright serenity and mirth - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Introduction"

Lets Passion's loosened elements fly - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Introduction"

Create new realms as wild - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Introduction"

With dread fantastic spells - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Introduction"

Sun-ripe Nature's million strings - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Introduction"

Makes my daily soup taste sour - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Isissimus"

Makes my daily bread taste salt - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Isissimus"

Baleful philters, withering spells - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Isissimus"

The yellow dust that rings the knells - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Isissimus"

A dream of Lethe - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Lethe"

The brink of leaden waters - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Lethe"

Masters of the ever-ready storm - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode of the Tuscan Shore"

Like an onward-hurried swan - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode of the Tuscan Shore"

The ghost of dwindled power - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode of the Tuscan Shore"

War's red and lurid planet - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode of the Tuscan Shore"

God's wrath upon the wing - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode to the Travelling Thunder"

Has heaven's strength to dread - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode to the Travelling Thunder"

Through night's scorched riven cloak - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode to the Travelling Thunder"

Some Titan still unstruck - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode to the Travelling Thunder"

Mock each sound of human woe - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode to the Travelling Thunder"

Hell's first wild useless word - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "On Signorelli's Fresco of the Binding of the Lost"

Empty in the August glare - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "A Pageant of Siena"

Kiss the marble and the gold - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "A Pageant of Siena"

Archways lined with faded saints - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "A Pageant of Siena"

March by in motley blazonry - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "A Pageant of Siena"

Pours the phials of his anger - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Promethean Fancies I"

As if to find a Titan - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Promethean Fancies I"

Imprisoned thunder groping for the doors - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Promethean Fancies I"

The doors of never-ending gorges - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Promethean Fancies I"

Then wakes Prometheus - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Promethean Fancies I"

Angels in the darkness quail - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Promethean Fancies I"

Scare the screaming eagles - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Promethean Fancies II"

Plague with livid pinions - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sister Mary of the Plague"

Ready to resume the battle - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sister Mary of the Plague"

Within the boundless realm of Horror - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sister Mary of the Plague"

Creeps the tide of shadow - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sister Mary of the Plague"

Yields in peace its yearly grain - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"

The fruit of Freedom's tillage - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"

Rolling all its bridges under - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"

With a dull unceasing thunder - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"

The thunder of their curse - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"

The sheaves of sacred wheat - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"

Like a snake inert and blue - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"

That like vipers start - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"

Who made them walk in chains - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Sword and Sickle"

Some score too great for payment - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

Had passed six idle years - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

Some better strings in my weak heart - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

New worlds defined their shape - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

Compelled by an enchanter's rod - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

To some fantastic child of Pan - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

To conduct the mind through perished worlds - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

How my heart's chords vibrate - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

Counted all the links of evidence - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

Clumps of reeds where there is no water - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

By torch-light and alone - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"

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