To The Poor (Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld Poems)
Child of distress, who meet'st the bitter scornOf fellow-men to happier prospects born,Doomed Art and Nature's various stores to seeFlow ...
Child of distress, who meet'st the bitter scornOf fellow-men to happier prospects born,Doomed Art and Nature's various stores to seeFlow ...
PURE form, that like some chalice of old time Contain'st the liquid of the poet's thought Within thy curving hollow, ...
I have a fellowship with every shadeOf changing nature: with the tempest hourMy soul goes forth to claim her early ...
If you and IHad wings to fly -Great wings like seagulls' wings -How would we soarAbove the roarOf loud unneeded ...
I have no fear. What is in store for me Shall find me ready for it, undismayed. God grant ...
THROUGH my north window, in the wintry weather,-- My airy oriel on the river shore,-- I watch the sea-fowl as ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
Captain AJ Shout, VC, MC, MID (& bar), who died at Gallipoli of wounds and was posthumously awarded the VC, ...
See how her hair has thinned: it does not seem / like hair at all, but like the airy moult ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
Begin each morning with a talk to God, And ask for your divine inheritance Of usefulness, contentment, and success. Resign ...
In the glad revels, in the happy fetes, When cheeks are flushed, and glasses gilt and pearled With the sweet ...
In the little Crimson Manual it's written plain and clear That who would wear the scarlet coat shall say good-bye ...
I Because the night was falling warm and still Upon a golden day at April's end, I thought; I will ...
STRANGE are the ways of men, And strange the ways of God! We tread the mazy paths That all our ...
To the voters of Glen Innes 'twas O'Sullivan that went, To secure the country vote for Mister Hay. So he ...
You talk of riders on the flat, of nerve and pluck and pace -- Not one in fifty has the ...
Twas at the camp of Rorke's Drift, and at tea-time, And busily engaged in culinary operations was a private of ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Prelude Blue storm-clouds in hot heavens of mid-July Hung heavy, brooding over land and sea: Our hearts, a-tremble, throbbed in ...
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