Sonnet XIV. Glastonbury. (Henry Alford Poems)
On thy green marge, thou vale of Avalon, Not for that thou art crowned with ancient towers And shafts and clustered pillars ...
On thy green marge, thou vale of Avalon, Not for that thou art crowned with ancient towers And shafts and clustered pillars ...
All of the Old KingsAre wakened from their sleep,Arthur out of Avalon,Ogier from the deep,Redbeard from his Dragon-Rock,Sigurd from his ...
Lo! he is gone; star-crowned and clean of tears,With Fame's immortal blossoms on his hair.He met Death's kiss; tonight the ...
From Beaulieu down to Brixham townWe sailed the summer seas;We beat and ran and took delightIn every slant of breeze,And ...
Industrious, affable, having brain on fire,Henry perplexed himself; others gave up;good girls gave in;geography was hard on friendship, Sire;marriages lashed ...
(Founded Quebec Seminary, 1663)LAVAL, High Priest of Knowledge, who first scannedThe years to come, and saw the pow'rs that layWithin ...
What is my thought of you, beloved one,Now you have passed from me and gone your ways?Glory is gone with ...
Luck to the craft that bears this name of mine,Good fortune follow with her golden spoonThe glazed hat and tarry ...
As one, who, journeying westward with the sun,Beholds at length from the up-towering hills,Far-off, a land unspeakable beauty fills,Circean peaks ...
1295So the land had rest! and the cloud of that heart-sore struggle and painRose from her ancient hills, and peace ...
THE night was dark on gentle Avalon, No moon reflected in the lightless mere Remembered day; no beams of starlight ...
IMASEFIELD (HIMSELF)GOD said, and frowned, as He looked onShropshire clay:"Alone, 'twont do; composite, would I makeThis man-child rare; 'twere well, ...
1 Out of the night of lovelessness I call Thee, as, in a chill chamber where no rays ...
Arthur is gone . . . Tristram in CareolSleeps, with a broken sword - and Yseult sleepsBeside him, where the ...
Roland is dead, Cuchulain's crest is low,The battered war-rear wastes and turns to rust,And Helen's eyes and Iseult's lips are ...
Industrious, affable, having brain on fire, Henry perplexed himself; others gave up; good girls gave in; geography was hard on ...
I lived among great houses, Riches drove out rank, Base drove out the better blood, And mind and body shrank. ...
I have no happiness in dreaming of Brycelinde, Nor Avalon the grass-green hollow, nor Joyous Isle, Where one found Lancelot ...
I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. I said, "O Soul, make merry ...
When in from Delos came the gold That held the dream of Pericles, When first Athenian ears were told The ...
AN ARGUMENT FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF PEACE AND GOODWILL WITH THE JAPANESE PEOPLE Glossary for the uninstructed and the hasty: ...
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