Hero Herald (Menella Bute Smedley Poems)
IIn his tent, at fall of day,Hero Harold loosed his mail,As a bark which nears the bayDrops on deck her ...
IIn his tent, at fall of day,Hero Harold loosed his mail,As a bark which nears the bayDrops on deck her ...
Trained tenderly by Heaven and Earth,Up grew she to her gentle height,-Grew to the level of the lightThat shines by ...
PART IChildren should not leave aboutAnything that's small and bright,Lest the fairies spy it out,And fly off with it at ...
Word was brought where Cortes layOn the shores of Coronzel,That, pent from the blessed light of dayAnd the free breath ...
Two days and nightsI watch'd the winding of the changeful lightsAbout the ivory shadows of his face,Which, like a rock, ...
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 ...
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 ...
He stands at the door of the church peeping in,No troublesome beadle is near him;The preacher is talking of sinners ...
AFTER THAT SHAMEFUL IMPRISONMENT WHICH WAS THE RESULT OF HIS DEFEAT AT PAVIAI am once more a king!Wave forth my ...
She has not a morsel to eat!Just fancy a child in that state,Creeping along all alone in the street,A sweet ...
AGED THREE YEARS AND A HALFDeep in thy round blue eyesAsleep thy spirit lies,Or half-awake and wanton in its play,As ...
A figure wanders through my dreamsAnd wears a veil upon its face,Still bending to my breast it seems,Yet ever turns ...
Lying in the shadow, looking at the sky,Proud sweet hours glance back at us, smile in passing by;Show us something ...
O little flowers, you love me so,You could not do without me;O little birds that come and go,You sing sweet ...
Father, I bring before Thy throneA heart more dear to me than mine;O! watch it with Thine eyes benign,And take ...
An Angel came and cried to him by night,'God needs a Martyr from your little band;Name me the purest soul, ...
Not only for yourselves, but for the yearsWhich you, not knowing, bring to me anew,Are you so dear that I ...
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