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 ...
WRITTEN FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH, JANUARY 25, 1859.A HUNDRED years ago, when George was King, The second monarch ...
COME out, said Leonard, bursting through my door, His black curls tangled like a fretting sea,-- "Come out, nor waste ...
PEACE on the hush'd earth fell at eventide, As dew from heaven upon the thirsty grass; No sound unmusical broke ...
BEHOLD, O Lord! these unhewn stones Piled rudely for thy mighty towers, And I, condemned to work alone, Possessor of ...
IN summer, eighteen fifty-eight, A ship sailed out from Aberdeen; A gilded pet for summer state The little Fox had ...
[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 ...
THE law which was given abides, By mountain and valley and wood, The slayer is fleeing, and after him rides ...
POOR Love! It died a sudden death While yet 'twas filled with hope and joy; No lingering failure of the ...
TIME rolls, and month by month The upwelling blood of Nature fills her veins, And the bright wooing sun From ...
CHRISTMAS is over, and Christmas cheer;-- What shall we wish you, O reader dear? What do you want for your ...
CHRISTMAS comes, Christmas comes, Blessing wheresoe'er he roams, And he calls the little children Cluster'd in a thousand homes. Stand ...
WE walk in mysteries howsoe'er we tread, And none less awful that we see them not, Or that our solemn ...
THE sultry sun Burn'd hotter in December than the skies Of our far land in June; within a bower, Where ...
WHAT art thou, and what hidest thou, Thou veil of fair material sense, So thin, of baffling permanence? What art ...
WITH a sweet murmur dropping waters play, Breaking, the stillness of this summer's day, And all things beautiful and light ...
I SAID last year, Old Christmas cometh with an open hand, Bright holly wreath'd about his temples bland, Icicles twisted ...
LONG winding lanes and hedges red with bloom Of sweet wild robin, and starr'd with tender white; A sun down ...
IN this rejoicing time, when sun and shower In shining alternation rule the sky, And the brown fields are shadow'd ...
(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, ...
'TIS dark, and I fancy A ring at the bell,-- My heart leapeth up With a throb and a swell; ...
TWAS on a Sabbath morning that we wandered in the wood, Where near three thousand years ago the ancient Veii ...
THE palms are yellowing in the Autumn heat, I hate the ripple of that tideless sea, But worse the line ...
FINE and strong 'T has stood for long, Jetting up its slender lances Far athwart the arched sky, On whose ...
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