Erratic Musings (Alexander Anderson Poems)
Alone. For Jack has gone away, To hide his head in proofs and letters;And left me here to spend the ...
Alone. For Jack has gone away, To hide his head in proofs and letters;And left me here to spend the ...
O meines Lebens goldne zeit.—SchillerO the youth of love and madness! let me sing another songEre the cynic grows upon ...
From hill-encircled Windermere, And all through happy Ambleside,Where every nook and spot were dear, A gentle Spirit was my guide.He ...
England, amid thy great in this great time One man, white-haired, with misty, flashing eyesLooms from the rest, in his ...
I heard this old legend a few days ago— A legend so quaint Of Ireland's saint, That to lighten my ...
I see yet, bright as summer beams, The spot where all my childhood wander'd,And where, in rich Arabian dreams, I ...
The Rev. John Donaldson, M.A., Kirkconnel. "Ave Atque Vale."A brooding quiet rests to-day On all the well-known hills around;Spring lingers ...
Rachel, soft and shy and blushing, pass'd into the angel wife, Tears of joy within the rapture of her sweetly-drooping ...
I still min' Jock Buchan, the lang gawkie fule,He was nearly man muckle though still at the schule,While I was ...
Ambos oder Hammer sein. —GoetheMy brothers, in this great world of ours Our hearts have need to be strong,And have ...
Du Wonne der Natur.—Schiller.O come away to the woodland bowers, Where the shade is soft and sweet,And pillow the head ...
Ah me! for all my toil and search, And rhyming, till the muse grow surly,I doubt I ne'er shall hook ...
The spirit of God fell on him, and he pass'd From out the common bounds wherein we move,And like a ...
It was a little grave—So little, you could almost think the sextonHad, in his weary labour, left a sod—A single ...
Old Adam breaking stones by the wayside, Leans on his hammer for a moment's space,Then turns away his head, as ...
Bertha grew up to noble womanhood Full of the light of smiles, and in her eyes,As sweet as spring flowers ...
On the slope, half-hid in grass, and right beneath the sounding wire,Lay the lark, the sweetest singer in the Heavenly ...
A breath went through the Universe, and shookAll things to music, and a mighty voiceRoll'd upward like a psalm, and ...
There ran behind the angels' wingsAn undertone of murmurings,Faint, as when sighing autumn grieves,And wrings her palms of wither'd leaves.Then ...
From the dim, dread veil that in wisdom is cast Between men and the shadowy scopeOf the future, the young ...
Ah! often when coming from labour, When I hear the children play,There rises within me a vision Of the school-house ...
I was alone with the Master, I was weary and sick with pain,For the fight with the passions had left ...
Two master spirits of German song, they stand Each by the side of each; the sculptor's thought Has guided the ...
Bow thou to Genius, and thy worship give To our Magician, who, with wondrous wand, Walk'd through the realms of ...
It was a spot so quiet that the stream Was in itself a silence, and the wood Slept as if ...
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