Lacrymae Paterae (Henry Alford Poems)
I. This tranquil Sabbath morn hath hushed the earth Into unwonted calm. The clear pale hills Lie beneath level lines of sunny clouds, Walling ...
I. This tranquil Sabbath morn hath hushed the earth Into unwonted calm. The clear pale hills Lie beneath level lines of sunny clouds, Walling ...
We do not know each other—'tis the phraseOf the cold, artful world which I abhor;But in my heart I hear ...
What know we of the world immenseBeyond the narrow ring of sense?What should we know, who lounge aboutThe house we ...
BENEATH the shadow of a breezeless palmMahmoud Ben Suleim, in the evening calm,Sat, with his gravely meditative eyesTurned on the ...
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR,The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware;Yet, why suppose the sex my ...
There stood an unsold captive in the mart,a gray-haired and majestical old man,chained to a pillar. It was almost night,and ...
While we to Jove select the holy victimWhom apter shall we sing than Jove himself,The god for ever great, for ...
THOU loveliest far of all the Heavenly Train!Thou bright attendant on Night's solemn reign!In whom created Beauty's charms combine,With excellence ...
Go forth and breathe the purer air with me, And leave the city's sounding streets;There is another city, sweet to see, Whose ...
AN INCIDENT OF THE CANADIAN REBELLION OF 1837.Bon jour, M'sieu'--you want to know'Bout dat ole gun--w'at good she's for?W'y! Jean ...
Wouldst thou behold, not the ensnaring blaze Of earthly grandeur in its envious noon, But the calm majesty of other days Reposing, as ...
YE pleasant myths of Eld, why have ye fled?The earth has fallen from her blissful primeOf summer years, the dews ...
Yet once more, Harp of prophecy, once moreFondly I come soliciting thine aid;By whose celestial minstrelsy inspiredThe saintly Enoch walk'd ...
APOEM,WRITTEN ON THAT COAST, AND ADDRESSED TO ITS PROPRIETOR,SIR JOHN STANLEY. THEE, STANLEY , thee, our gladden'd spirit hails,Since Life's ...
I Chins that might serve the new Jerusalem; Streets footsore; minute whisking milliners, Dubbed graceful, but at whom one's eye ...
IThe heart you hold too small and local thing,Such spacious terms of edifice to bear.And ...
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...
This is the place where William's kingly power Did from their poor and peaceful homes expel, Unfriended, desolate, and shelterless, ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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