Everyday Characters I – The Vicar (Winthrop Mackworth Praed Poems)
Some years ago, ere time and tasteHad turned our parish topsy-turvy,When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste,And roads as little known ...
Some years ago, ere time and tasteHad turned our parish topsy-turvy,When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste,And roads as little known ...
(LES SOUVENIRS DU PEUPLE) Ay, many a day the straw-thatched cot Shall echo with his glory! The humblest shed, these fifty years, Shall know ...
What happier haunt could the gods allotFor loftiest musing to sage or bard?-Yet I would that this upper verandah did ...
Oh, would the fairies to her whisper The truths which they to him impart,Teach her a beautiful hereafter, A Heaven to bless ...
I: PalacesA Wall of sod, a roof of thatch,And naked turf the floor;And winds, unchallenged and unbarred,Go in and out ...
SUMMER passed by, and Autumn; Winter came With grey cold days and black unpitying nights, And many children gathered round ...
I Last night I dreamed this dream: That I was dead; And as I slept, forgot of man ...
Listen to the Poet's story Of an ancient bell,Freighted with its wreaths of glory, With its fate as well:On Alhambra's ...
ELLA kept anxious vigil by the bed: How strange it is to watch through creeping hours A face which was ...
"THEY had brought in such sheafs of hair, And flung them all about us there In the loud noonday's heat ...
A BALLAD OF SORROW "Jeanne Bras! Jeanne Bras! arise and let me in; Jeanne Bras! Jeanne Bras! will you awake?" ...
Three Souls there were that reached the Heavenly Gate,And gained permission of the Guard to wait.Barred from the bliss of ...
_There are no ghosts in America._There are no ghosts, you say, To haunt her blaze of light;No shadows in her ...
One evening I found lodging in a village where A press-gang stole by night to seize my aging host,Who, hearing ...
The strength of twice three thousand horse That seeks the single goal; The line that holds the rending course, The ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
The lone man gazed and gazed upon his gold, His sweat, his blood, the wage of weary days; But now ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
I. She, who so long has lain Stone-stiff with folded wings, Within my heart again The brown bird wakes and ...
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