Under The Olives (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
SEATED in a Moorish garden On the Sahel of Algiers, Wandering breezes brought the burden Of its history in past ...
SEATED in a Moorish garden On the Sahel of Algiers, Wandering breezes brought the burden Of its history in past ...
THOU that wouldst enter here, Hold thy breath inward with an holy fear; Put off thy shoes, thou in this ...
PEACE on the hush'd earth fell at eventide, As dew from heaven upon the thirsty grass; No sound unmusical broke ...
[How the King's Daughter, having married me, a peasant, for love, heareth of the death of her only brother, and ...
AMONG the crowd, one, with a gayer face Than most, came swaggering; the Sabine Bard, The Roman Priest of Song, ...
I LIV'D in an old house, you ne'er saw one older, The wind whistled loud when the winter set in; ...
PART I."THE night is dark as pitch, Harry, But there's not a drop of rain, And when the tide has ...
TIME rolls, and month by month The upwelling blood of Nature fills her veins, And the bright wooing sun From ...
WE walk in mysteries howsoe'er we tread, And none less awful that we see them not, Or that our solemn ...
'TIS dark, and I fancy A ring at the bell,-- My heart leapeth up With a throb and a swell; ...
WHEN within that silken-curtained room, The dear Husband of our State lay dying, All the land was shrouded with that ...
OH cruel England! standing coldly by, While groans of human creatures rend the sky. The mother's darling and the sister's ...
THEY came across the distant hills With trumpet, pipe, and drum; And all the air with welcome fills, Which deepens ...
BROAD level fields, and hedges thick with trees, A calm still evening dropping fitful rain, And hawthorns loaded with their ...
HEAVILY hang the purple grapes By fair Lake Garda's waveless side; Above, in slow ethereal march, Battalion'd clouds in order ...
WHAT is it? a speck in the distance, A rumour that flies in the air, Too faint to be met ...
A LITTLE bird sat on a greenwood tree, And out of a holy book read he, His native notes adorning; ...
WHERE shall ye lay me? not in foreign climes, Where stranger winds would sadly waft the unaccustom'd chimes; Where my ...
I LOVE to lie In the dreamy heat of an autumn day, Where the painted insects idly play, Floating about ...
WE pray for earth and earthly things, Surely such prayer is nought, A bended knee, a lifted voice Unmixed with ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, drowned July 8, 1822.MARY WOLSTONCRAFT SHELLEY, died Feb. 1, 1851.In death they are not divided.TWO graves within ...
THE steadfast coursing of the stars, The waves that ripple to the shore, The vigorous trees which year by year ...
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