A Poem, Upon a Prospect of the Marriage of the Prince of Wales (James Hurdis Poems)
Season of darkness and contracted day, Inclement Winter, whose approaching foot Treads on the heel of Autumn, pause; nor strew With thy rude ...
Season of darkness and contracted day, Inclement Winter, whose approaching foot Treads on the heel of Autumn, pause; nor strew With thy rude ...
What of the years of Englishmen? What have they brought of growth and graceSince mud-built London by its fen Became the Briton's ...
I.When her fair land with grief o'erspread,Insubria mourn'd her primate dead;When Borromeo to the tombWas borne mid all-pervading gloom;When dimm'd ...
I.'Lift me without the tent, I say,-Me and my ottoman,-I'll see the messenger myself!It is the caravanFrom Africa, thou sayest,And ...
Once in a time old Johnny Bull Flew in a raging fury,And swore that Jonathan should have No trials, sir, by jury;That ...
His face wor varry thin an pale, His een wor strangely breet;His old rags flapt i'th' wintry gale, An shooless wor his ...
January 23, 1991The new war is a week old.Bombs fall on Baghdad,missiles on Tel Aviv.The voice on the radio saysthe ...
VOICE of a people suffering long,The pathos of their mournful song,The sorrow of their night of wrong!Their cry like that ...
War is no longer declared,only continued. The monstroushas become everyday. The herostays away from battle. The weakhave gone to the ...
"All wars are planned by older menIn council rooms apart,Who call for greater armamentAnd map the battle chart.But out along ...
Who knows of a better world should step forward.Alone, no longer out of bravery, not wiping away this saliva,this saliva ...
But, when they were alone,--and now no more By that subduing presence overawed,-- With free tongue giving loose to wrath ...
All night in slumber deep the armies lay: But, while the eastern sky with first faint beam Yet dimly reddened; ...
(OF AN UNFINISHED POEM.) Dear woman! star of sad life's clouded heaven,I dedicate myself to thee again; Fair woman! as ...
For, day and night, by restless demons stirred,-- Like many fires in one combustion joined,-- King, sorcerers, priests, rulers, and ...
Tho' I own I have no adequate proofsOf this queer tale of the quaint old Goophs - The Goophs ...
Not, exactly, green: closer to bronze preserved in kind brine, something retrieved from a Greco-Roman wreck, patinated and oddly muscular. ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
Over the sea our galleys went, With cleaving prows in order brave, To a speeding wind and a bounding wave, ...
OVER the sea our galleys went, With cleaving prows in order brave To a speeding wind and a bounding wave-- ...
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