Ave! (An Ode for the Shelley Centenary, 1892) (Charles G. D. Roberts Poems)
I O tranquil meadows, grassy Tantramar, Wide marshes ever washed in clearest air, Whether beneath the ...
I O tranquil meadows, grassy Tantramar, Wide marshes ever washed in clearest air, Whether beneath the ...
Still, of her course, two hours had night to run; Yet, for departure so had all prepared; So the Egyptians, ...
GERTRUDE.IN clouds drew on the evening's close, Which cross the west in ranges stood, As pensive GERTRUDE sought the wood, ...
'Twas night, and now advanc'd the solemn hour;The keeper of the prison, from his tow'r, Astonish'd, sees a form divinely ...
Their father's blessing on their knees they take,And now to Memphis quick advances make,Where safe arriv'd, but fearful of their ...
A gambler born was young BasilHis finances were all of a latherA wayward boy, but his mother's joyAnd likewise, the ...
What are these women up to? They've gone and strung Drapes over the windows, cutting out light And the slightest ...
We are the ghosts of those small flowers, That in the opening of the year, 'Neath rosemary and ...
Thou dost to rich attire a grace,To let it deck itself with thee,And teachest pomp strange cunning waysTo be thought ...
Those fellows down in parliament Have kicked up such a fuss, That now we seem election bent ...
Arrayed in robes of regal state,But stiff and cold, the monarch sate;In gorgeous vests, his chair beside,Stood prince and peer, ...
"When He comes!My sweetest 'When'!"C. ROSSETTI.Thus may it be (I thought) at someday's close,Some lilac-haunted eve, when every roseBreathes forth ...
When the bright sun back on his yearly road Comes towards us, his great glory seems to me, ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer were a very notorious couple of cats. As knockabout clown, quick-change comedians, tight-rope walkers and acrobats They ...
The Heaven vests for Each In that small Deity It craved the grace to worship Some bashful Summer's Day -- ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
The Sheep adorns the landscape rural And is both singular and plural- It gives grammarians the creeps To hear one ...
Thou dost to rich attire a grace, To let it deck itself with thee, And teachest pomp strange cunning ways ...
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound ...
A Letter To My Aunt Discussing The Correct Approach To Modern Poetry To you, my aunt, who would explore The ...
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