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 ...
TIS April! 'Tis a holyday! and they shut close yester-even The golden gates of Sydenham with the clang of iron ...
[How the King's Daughter, having married me, a peasant, for love, heareth of the death of her only brother, and ...
TIME rolls, and month by month The upwelling blood of Nature fills her veins, And the bright wooing sun From ...
THE sultry sun Burn'd hotter in December than the skies Of our far land in June; within a bower, Where ...
WITH a sweet murmur dropping waters play, Breaking, the stillness of this summer's day, And all things beautiful and light ...
(OBERON loquitur.)ALAS! they have stolen my Fairy Princess, And where they have hidden her I cannot guess. But my life ...
IT is not the rose, though the rose is red, And as full of love as a flower can be, ...
FINE and strong 'T has stood for long, Jetting up its slender lances Far athwart the arched sky, On whose ...
I SAT once more within a tangl'd wood, Beside a quiet river, on whose breast A world of trees look'd ...
WHERE do we hide when the year is old, When the days are short and the nights are cold? Where? ...
GOOD bye, Old Year! And with thee take Thanks for the gifts to every land Thou broughtest in thy bounteous ...
ON the still water of our childish days The noonday blue and midnight heaven look down, Painting themselves, while every ...
WHO calleth? I am coming, I am coming, O'er the hills with a swift step, from dawn till gloaming, Pouring ...
WE dwelt in an old palace near to Rome; It was decay'd from its magnificence, But not less beautiful than ...
QUIETLY sleeping on its little couch The cherish'd infant lay; its curly hair Twin'd lovingly about the tranquil brow, And ...
LITTLE yellow darling, Delicate and pale, Can thy gentle loveliness Brook such a wintry gale, That nestled by this rushing ...
BROAD level fields, and hedges thick with trees, A calm still evening dropping fitful rain, And hawthorns loaded with their ...
IN a garden filled with sunshine, Deep in the heart of Rome, Came the exiled gods of Hellas, And made ...
WHAT distance parteth thee and me! It is not space, it is not time-- Death hath not put between our ...
OUT from the house I went when early dawn As yet had hardly ting'd the peaks with gold, And cottage-smoke ...
THE skies were dark and bright, Like the eyes that I love best, When I looked into the night From ...
I LOVE to lie In the dreamy heat of an autumn day, Where the painted insects idly play, Floating about ...
PAINTED on a little cloud, Opposite the sunset sky, Far above the high-pil'd crowd Sailing slowly softly by, I saw ...
I AM not lonely, O my Love, Save in so far I have not thee, Without whose smile the changeful ...
FATE brooded darkly o'er the ancient world, Athens and Rome beneath her shadow dwelt; The snaky terror of her eye ...
A SMILE and a tear were disputing one day On their different merits and skill; It grieves me to state ...
SWEET melody amidst the moving spheres Breaks forth, a solemn and entrancing sound, A harmony whereof the earth's green hills ...
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