Look Home (Robert Southwell Poems)
Retired thoughts enjoy their own delights,As beauty doth in self-beholding eye ;Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,A brief ...
Retired thoughts enjoy their own delights,As beauty doth in self-beholding eye ;Man's mind a mirror is of heavenly sights,A brief ...
The moist and quiet morn was scarcely breaking,When Ariadne in her bower was waking;Her eyelids still were closing, and she ...
Ah, Sleep, to me thou com'st not in the guiseOf one who brings good gifts to weary men,Balm for bruised ...
When I was young, when I was young!Were you ever young, Prytherch, a rich farmer:Cows in the byre, sheep in ...
Act III.SCENE I. The studio of the Spagnoletto. RIBERA before his canvas. LUCA in attendance.RIBERA (laying aside his brush).So! I ...
Fair land! of chivalry the old domain,Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain!Though not for thee with classic shores ...
I O tranquil meadows, grassy Tantramar, Wide marshes ever washed in clearest air, Whether beneath the ...
AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT LLOYD. Contrarius evehor orbi.--OVID, Met. lib. ii.When foes insult, and prudent friends dispense,In pity's strains, the ...
We who know not the charms of a glass below Zero, Come list to the lay of an Alpine Club ...
Three little kittens, black, white and gray, Went out in the garden one morning to play. Said the white one, ...
Happy the souls that first believed,To Jesus and each other cleaved,Joined by the unction from aboveIn mystic fellowship of love. ...
Far and wide among the nations Spread the name and fame of Kwasind; No man dared to strive with Kwasind, ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
(i) how new the world is trying to find nerve in an old rind (ii) the bread is crumbled for ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
Marking time in pencil strokes across a virgin page and waiting for coincidence of heart-beat and second-hand, keying to the ...
v.5,13-19,22,23 C. M. Deliverance from death. Unto thine hand, O God of truth, My spirit I commit; Thou hast redeemed ...
LO! Victress on the peaks! Where thou, with mighty brow, regarding the world, (The world, O Libertad, that vainly conspired ...
Said darling daughter unto me: "oh Dad, how funny it would be If you had gone to Mexico A score ...
When first I met thee, warm and young, There shone such truth about thee, And on thy lip such promise ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
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