Bruce And Douglas (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
LAY THE FIRST THE DEATH OF BRUCEThere is darkness in the chamber,There is silence by the hearth,For pale, and cold, ...
LAY THE FIRST THE DEATH OF BRUCEThere is darkness in the chamber,There is silence by the hearth,For pale, and cold, ...
Trained tenderly by Heaven and Earth,Up grew she to her gentle height,-Grew to the level of the lightThat shines by ...
Up in the Highlands of ScotlandThe fairies are very rude;I do not know if all are so-Some of them may ...
Two days and nightsI watch'd the winding of the changeful lightsAbout the ivory shadows of his face,Which, like a rock, ...
In the beautiful forest is strayingAn innocent little white doe,And the creature is happily playingWith the sunlight that flickereth so;The ...
When midnight flung o'er earth and seaHer solemn veil of gloom,All fearless and alone was she,The Lady Grizzel Hume,-Lighted beneath ...
At twilight in beautiful summers,When all the dew is shed,And all the singers and hummersAre safe at home in bed,In ...
O, were you at war in the red Eastern land?What did you hear, and what did you see?Saw you my ...
A TRUE STORYYou see the gentle water,How silently it floats;How cautiously, how steadily,It moves the sleepy boats;And all the little ...
There moves a sad processionAcross the silent vale,With backward-glancing eyes of grief,And tearful cheeks all pale.Scatter'd and slow, without array,With ...
Where were you when I suffered? My heart was very faint;It wanted a heart to lean on; where was yours ...
Twenty-five shots!And, out of all the spotsWhere a man could stand and shoot,You would have said, "Not there."Anywhere else it ...
White Angels, listening all aroundThe terror, wrath, and strife of men,For faint heroic notes that soundThrough the mean tumult now ...
When the ship is but a speckTo the landsman's feeble eye,Sailors, lying on the deck,Feel at home with sea and ...
Two children sat in the twilight,Murmuring soft and low;Said one, "I'll be a sailor-lad,With my boat ahoy! yo ho!For sailors ...
Across the moon the beech-tree weavesAn airy mystery of leaves,The lights which through that covert passGlisten like rain-drops on the ...
Looking back,Wander we through life's long track,Looking back,Where a parted sun's soft rayLingers yet across the way.Gazing home,As the slow ...
"Bear with us! Your garden showsMany a snug and comely nest;But the very leaf we choseIs for us the only ...
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