Billy Vickers (Henry Kendall Poems)
No song is this of leaf and bird,And gracious waters flowing;I'm sick at heart, for I have heardBig Billy Vickers ...
No song is this of leaf and bird,And gracious waters flowing;I'm sick at heart, for I have heardBig Billy Vickers ...
On the nineteenth day of the tenth month of the second year of Ta-li (15 November 767), in the residence ...
Phantom streams were in the distance — mocking lights of lake and pool —Ghosts of trees of soft green lustre ...
The mid-day sun, with fiercest glare,Broods o'er the hazy twinkling air: Along the level sandThe palm-tree's shade unwavering lies,Just as thy ...
We were cartin' lathes and palin's from the slopes of Mount St. Leonard,With our axles near the road-bed and the ...
BECAUSE HE had sinned and suffered, because he loved the land,And because of his wonderful sympathy, he held men's hearts ...
On, on to the darkest continent,As the Adriatic sailed,In Eighteen Hundred and ...
Star of the North! though night winds driftThe fleecy drapery of the skyBetween thy lamp and me, I lift,Yea, lift ...
See! There he stands; not brave, but with an airOf sullen stupor. Mark him well! Is heNot more like brute ...
Once more to the breach for the land of the West!And a leader we give of our bravest and best, Of ...
When they thought that Denmark's kingSoundly in the graveyard slumbered,Words incredible, unnumbered,Through the land crept whispering.Rumor said: "The king hunts ...
ON HER SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY, JUNE 14, 1882I. AT THE SUMMITSISTER, we bid you welcome,--we who standOn the high table-land;We who ...
'Twas said of Greece two thousand years ago,That every stone i' the land had got a name.Of New South Wales ...
In the beams of a beautiful day, Made soft by a breeze from the sea,The horses were started away, The fleet-footed thirty ...
Store cattle from Nelanjie! The mob goes feeding past,With half-a-mile of sandhill 'twixt the leaders and the last;The nags that ...
LEADER.LET no cares now hover o'er usLet the wine unsparing run!Wilt thou swell our merry chorus?Hast thou all thy duty ...
Love and thy vain employs, awayFrom this too oft deluded breast!No longer will I court thy stay,To be my bosom's ...
Midas, we are in story told,Turn'd every thing he touch'd to gold:He chipp'd his bread; the pieces roundGlitter'd like spangles ...
READ AT THE MEETING HELD AT MUSIC HALL,FEBRUARY 8, 1876, IN MEMORY OF DR. SAMUEL G. HOWEI.LEADER of armies, Israel's ...
Alas! how dismal is my tale, I lost my watch in Doneraile. My Dublin watch, my chain and seal, Pilfer'd at once in ...
IIt is not early spring and yetOf bloodroot blooms along the stream,And blotted banks of violet,My heart will dream.Is it ...
Sunny summer day it was when loping in to Laramie,I overtook the Walking Man, reined up and nodded "How!!"He'd been ...
Reader, preserve thy peace: those busy eyesWill weep at their own sad discoveries,When every line they add improves thy loss,Till, ...
INFERNO 33, 22-75.Now had the loophole of that dungeon, stillWhich bears the name of Famine's Tower from me,And where 'tis ...
Herr Jesu, Licht der Heiden,Der Frommen Schatz und Lieb',Wir kommen jetzt mit FreudenDurch deines Geistes TriebIn diesen deinen TempelUnd suchen ...
The hoar-frost hisses 'neath the feet, And the worm-fence's straggling length, Smote by the morning's slanted strength, Sparkles one rib of virgin sleet. To ...
My parents were sober living, and often did prayFor their family to abstain from intoxicating drink alway;Because they knew it ...
He shall live to the end of this mad old world, he has lived since the world began,He never has ...
On the classic shore of Como,'Neath a headland steep and bold,Which, though leaden at the dawning,In the sunset turns to ...
Though flowers have perished at the touchOf Frost, the early comer,I hail the season loved so much,The good St. Martin's ...
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