I There is a a Thorn- it looks so old In truth, you'd find it hard to say How it could ever have been young It looks so old and gray Not higher than a two years' child It stands erect, this aged Thorn No leaves it has, no prickly points It is a mass of knotted joints A wretched thing forlorn It Standa erect, and like a stone With lichens is it...Learn More

Behold the gloomy tyrant's awful form Binding the captive earth in icy chains His chilling breath sweeps over the watery plains Howls in the blast, and swells the rising storm See from its centre bends the rifted tower See from its centre bends the rifted tower Threat'ning the lowly vale with frowning pride Over the scared flocks that seeks its...Learn More

From the shadows of the luring mind We come crawling, crawling We bring freedom from the devil We come crawling, crawling Little child, open your mind You are lost, you need saving Or you'll burn, you'll burn Burn! We come with plague We slay our way When your guard is down In our words you'll drown Behind the golden mask A beast Behind these...Learn More

The morning comes, and thickening clouds prevail Hanging like curtains all the horizon round Or overhead in heavy stillness soil So still is day, it seems like night profound Scarce by the city's din the air is stirred And dull and deadened comes its every sound The cock's shrill, piercing voice subdued is heard Dissolved in mists the hills and...Learn More

It was not death, for I stood up And all the Dead, lie down It was not Night, for all the Bells Put out their Tongues, for Noon It was not Frost, for on my Flesh I felt Siroccos - crawl Nor fire - for just my marble feet Could keep a Chancel, cool And yet, it tasted, like them all The Figures I have seen Set orderly, for Burial Reminded me, of...Learn More

Heroes of the wasteland Where we all fade away The dust of the concrete In the veins of those who stay Iris of half-a-man Watch the giants leave with the wind Beyond the gates of ever sadness The souls are left astray The tides of time Come uncompressed In this cualdron of the damned The tears of regrets Leaves a rivеr of blood A trail from the...Learn More