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 ...
This is the tale that the howlers tellAt the end of the hunting weather,When the quick rain rillsOn the bare, ...
Thou brown, bare-breasted, voiceless mystery,Hot sphinx of nature, cactus-crowned, what hast thou done?Unclothed and mute as when the groans of ...
While snow the window-panes bedim,The fire curls up a sunny charm,Where, creaming o'er the pitcher's rim,The flowering ale is set ...
THE latter rain, it falls in anxious hasteUpon the sun-dried fields and branches bare,Loosening with searching drops the rigid wasteAs ...
You, dear, have heard me vaunt a memory The which by trodden paths will ...
When I have a house . . . as I sometime may . . .I'll suit my fancy in every ...
Walking to Jerusalem A hot and dusty way,Christ sought the house of LazarusAt the close of day.And Martha fed Him ...
I am back from up the country -- very sorry that I went -- Seeking for the Southern poets' land ...
I am back from up the country -- very sorry that I went -- Seeking for the Southern poets' land ...
(June 21st, 1887) By the well, where the bullocks go Silent and blind and slow -- By the field where ...
There was a strife 'twixt man and maid-- Oh, that was at the birth of time! But what befell 'twixt ...
The white moth to the closing bine, The bee to the opened clover, And the gipsy blood to the gipsy ...
A Rose, in tatters on the garden path, Cried out to God and murmured 'gainst His Wrath, Because a sudden ...
Hold hard, Ned! Lift me down once more, and lay me in the shade. Old man, you've had your work ...
Black trees against an orange sky, Trees that the wind shook terribly, Like a harsh spume along the road, Quavering ...
1 A SONG of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms-a ...
Now the stock have started dying, for the Lord has sent a drought; But we're sick of prayers and Providence ...
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