Israel In Egypt. Book Twenty-Fifth. (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
Still, of her course, two hours had night to run; Yet, for departure so had all prepared; So the Egyptians, ...
Still, of her course, two hours had night to run; Yet, for departure so had all prepared; So the Egyptians, ...
The jocund years with smiling plenty crown'd,In shining circles now advanc'd their round:Unbounded crops reward the reaper's toil,And rustick pleasures ...
Move upward, working out the brute, And let the ape and tiger die. —TennysonAy, in heaven's name, let us move ...
Here is the tale of Carrousel, The barber of Meridian Street.He cut, and coiffed, and shaved so ...
For unknown ages, mid his wild abode,Speechless *nd rude the human savage trode;By slow degrees expressive sounds acquired,And simple thoughts ...
. Yes, my friends!—that happier times have been Than the present, none can contravene; ...
You may delve down to rock for your foundation piers,You may go with your steel to the sky;You may purchase ...
You may delve down to rock for your foundation piers,You may go with your steel to the skyYou may purchase ...
On long, serene midsummer daysOf ripening fruit and yellow grain,How sweetly, by dim woodland ways,In tangled hedge or leafy lane,Fair ...
DIAMONDS wouldn't tell yer all I really think of you, The costliest gift the goldsmith makes I'm sure would never ...
Oh, hark to the brown thrush! hear how he sings!How he pours the dear pain of his gladness!What a gush! ...
THOU standest within thy tabernacle, crowned, Rapt from the world's vain pleasures and turmoil, While, filled with blessing, and sweet ...
Time-mouldering crosses, gemmed with imagery Of costliest work and Gothic tracery,Point still the spot, to hallowed Wedlock dear, Where rested ...
THE fire of freedom burns,Her flame shall reach the heaven;Heap up the sacred urns,And life for life be given!Woman of ...
The month of carnival of all the year, When Nature lets the wild earth go its way, And spend whole ...
(In memoriam C. T. W. Sometime trooper of the Royal Horse Guards obiit H.M. prison, Reading, Berkshire July 7, 1896) ...
1 NOW list to my morning's romanza-I tell the signs of the Answerer; To the cities and farms I sing, ...
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
Yes, my friends!--that happier times have been Than the present, none can contravene; That a race once lived of nobler ...
Though humble the banquet to which I invite thee, Thou'lt find there the best a poor bard can command; Eyes, ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
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