Syed Amir (Laurence Hope Poems)
Syed Amir is dead, and his numerous foesAre hushed in a breathless awe of amazed relief.The hearts of his friends ...
Syed Amir is dead, and his numerous foesAre hushed in a breathless awe of amazed relief.The hearts of his friends ...
Thrush, across the twilightHere in the abbey close,Pouring from your lilac-boughNote on pebbled note,Why do you sing so,Making your song ...
Come home with me a little spaceAnd browse about our ancient place,Lay by your wonted troubles hereAnd have a turn ...
The summer of nineteen eighteenI read The Jungle and TheResearch Magnificent. That fallMy father died and my auntTook me to ...
Fate has given me many a gift To which men most aspire,Lovely, precious and costly things, But not my heart's desire.Many a ...
Addressed To An Amiable Young Lady On Presenting Her With Some VioletsACCEPT, sweet Anne, the gift I bring,The first fair ...
AT A DINNER GIVEN HIM ON HIS EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY,DECEMBER 12, 1885With a bronze statuette of John of Bologna's Mercury,presented by ...
Come, gentle Venus! and assuageA warring world, a bleeding age.For nature lives beneath thy ray,The wintry tempests haste away,A lucid ...
Lovely courier of the sky,Whence and whither dost thou fly?Scattering, as thy pinions play,Liquid fragrance all the way:Is it business? ...
COULD this early bliss but restConstant for one single hour!But e'en now the humid WestScatters many a vernal shower.Should the ...
WITH COPIES OF THE AUTHOR'S WRITINGS.Friend of mine! whose lot was castWith me in the distant past;Where, like shadows flitting ...
Ah, greet the day, which, like a golden butterfly,Hovereth 'twixt the night and morn;And welcome her fullness-the hours 'mid shadowAnd ...
O Father! Thou dost love, Thou canst not hate, It is Thy very nature to be blest In giving all Thy creatures ...
" Hic cinis - ubique fama."Behold the mossed corner-stone dropped from the wall,And gaze on its date - but remember ...
"Now hark, little May, If you want to do right, Under your pillow Just look every night. If you have been good All through the ...
WHEN hope lies dead within the heart,By secret sorrow long conceal'd,We shrink lest looks or words impartWhat may not be ...
Chief of organic Numbers!Old Scholar of the Spheres!Thy spirit never slumbers,But rolls about our earsFor ever and for ever.O, what ...
"Enough, sad Muse, enough thy downward flight Has cleft with wearied wing the shades of night: Be drest in smiles, forget the ...
Arise, arise, arise!There is blood on the earth that denies ye bread;Be your wounds like eyesTo weep for the dead, ...
GOD save the Rights of Man!Give us a heart to scanBlessings so dear:Let them be spread aroundWherever man is found,And ...
Thou lover of the blaze of Mars, Come out with me to-night,For I have found among the stars A name of nobler ...
O gallant brothers of the generous South,Foes for a day and brothers for all time!I charge you by the memories ...
O had he first been swept away,Through air by wild winds tossed,Or sunk from Heaven's ethereal ray,To Pluto's dreary coast.Who ...
Now in your days of worst distress, The empty days that stretch before,When all your sweet's turned bitterness;-- The Hand of the ...
Who does his duty is a question Too complex to be solved by me,But he, I venture the suggestion, Does part of ...
Last night, just as the tints of autumn's skyOf sunset faded from our hills and streams,I sat, vague listening, lapped ...
She dwells by Great Kenhawa's side, In valleys green and cool;And all her hope and all her pride Are in the village ...
Where are you going,O muirnean, muirnean? Beyond all snowing,Beyond all reachOf tenderest speech,Or waves that breakUpon any beach,Or wind's rough ...
Many a tree is found in the woodAnd every tree for its use is good:Some for the strength of the ...
"Have you heard the earth crying?" said Vassily Vassilitch."What do you mean?" I asked."Why," said he, "I've heard her crying ...
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