The Turtle And Sparrow. An Elegiac Tale (Matthew Prior Poems)
Behind an unfrequented glade,Where yew and myrtle mix their shade,A widow Turtle pensive sat,And wept her murder'd lover's fate.The Sparrow ...
Behind an unfrequented glade,Where yew and myrtle mix their shade,A widow Turtle pensive sat,And wept her murder'd lover's fate.The Sparrow ...
I OFTEN, musing, wander back to days long since gone by,And far-off scenes and long-lost forms arise to fancy's eye.A ...
18th March celebrates the birth of a fine poet and soldier Wilfred OwenMarch 18th celebrates the birthday of a man. ...
OUT in the west, where runs are wide, And days than ours are hotter,Not very far from Lachlan Side There dwelt a ...
A PICTURE POEM FOR THE LITTLE ONES.I.Dear children, listen whilst I tellWhat to a certain Elf befell,Who left his house ...
The sons of the Prophet are brave men and boldAnd quite unaccustomed to fear,But the bravest by far in the ...
He lay in the darkness and waited.And longed for the light,And wondered which Heaven had fated,Should carry his fight.So he ...
The wassail had reached its stormy height, The feast was over in hall, When there came and stood at the ...
From Rome's palaces and villas Gaily issued forth a throng; From her humbler habitations Moved a human tide along. Haughty ...
(All of them from two stories in a single magazine.)She "greeted" and he "volunteered"; She "giggled"; he "asserted";She "queried" and ...
With care, and skill, and cunning artShe parried Time's malicious dart,And kept the years at bay,Till passion entered in her ...
In Memory of one of the Writer's Family who was a Volunteer during the War with Napoleon In a ferny ...
It seemed that out of the battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which ...
To-day the woods are trembling through and through With shimmering forms, that flash before my view, Then melt in green ...
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