Deliah (Adam Lindsay Gordon Poems)
The sun has gone down, spreading wide onThe sky-line one ray of red fire ;Prepare the soft cushions ...
The sun has gone down, spreading wide onThe sky-line one ray of red fire ;Prepare the soft cushions ...
Fytte IBy Wood and Wold"Beneath the greenwood bough." — W. Scott.Lightly the breath of the spring wind blows, Though ...
Part IVisions in the SmokeRest, and be thankful! On the verge Of the tall cliff rugged and grey,But whose granite ...
You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone?Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler ...
PLATE IRixa super meroThey sat by their wine in the tavern that night,But not in good fellowship true:The Rhenish was ...
Through the lattice rushes the south wind, dense With fumes of the flowery frankincense From hawthorn blossoming thickly; And gold ...
Scene I"Discontent"LAURENCE RABY.Laurence:I said to young Allan M'Ilveray, Beside the swift swirls of the North,When, in lilac shot through with ...
A DialogueMark:So, Maurice, you sail to-morrow, you say? And you may or may not return?Be sociable, man! for once in ...
FauconshaweTo fetch clear water out of the spring The little maid Margaret ran;From the stream to the castle's western ...
On the hill they are crowding together, In the stand they are crushing for room, Like midge-flies they swarm on ...
Francesca.Crush'd and throng'd are all the places In our amphitheatre,'Midst a sea of swarming faces I can yet distinguish her;Dost ...
The terrible night-watch is over,I turn where I lie,To eastward my dim eyes discoverFaint streaks in the sky ;Faint streaks ...
The shore-boat lies in the morning light, By the good ship ready for sailing;The skies are clear, and the dawn ...
Across the trackless seas I go, No matter when or where,And few my future lot will know, And fewer still ...
A burning glass of burnished brass, The calm sea caught the noontide rays,And sunny slopes of golden grass And wastes ...
DawnOn skies still and starlit White lustres take hold,And grey flushes scarlet, And red flashes gold.And sun-glories coverThe rose shed ...
DelilahThe sun has gone down, spreading wide on The sky-line one ray of red fire;Prepare the soft cushions ...
FORRESTI've won the two tosses from Prescot;Now hear me, and hearken and heed,And pull that vile flower from your waistcoat,And ...
Two years ago I was thinking On the changes that years bring forth;Now I stand where I then stood drinking ...
'TWAS midst the battle's echoing dinAnd the cannon's thundering roar,When brave men fought to die or winAnd the decks ran ...
WHITE steeds of ocean, that leap with a hollow and wearisome roarOn the bar of ironstone steep, not a fathom's ...
Oh, gaily sings the bird! and the wattle-boughs are stirr'd And rustled by the scented breath of spring; Oh, the ...
PUT no faith in aught you meet with, friends or lovers,new or old,Never trust the gamest racehorse that was everreared ...
'Tis a wicked world we live in;Wrong in reason, wrong in rhyme;But no matter: we'll not give inWhile we still ...
OH, gaily sings the bird! and the wattle-boughs are stirred And rustled by the scented breath of Spring; Oh, the ...
'WHERE shall we go for our garlands glad At the falling of the year, When the burnt-up banks are yellow ...
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