The Caffer (Thomas Pringle Poems)
Lo! where he crouches by the cleugh's dark side,Eyeing the farmer's lowing herds afar;Impatient watching till the Evening StarLead forth ...
Lo! where he crouches by the cleugh's dark side,Eyeing the farmer's lowing herds afar;Impatient watching till the Evening StarLead forth ...
THEY hold their own, they have no peersIn gloom and glow, in hopes and fears,In love and terror, hovering roundThe ...
Beware! The sword of England Is in your hand to keep:Look that it be not tarnished Nor pilfered in your ...
The Caucas lies before my feet! I stand where Glaciers gleam, beside a precipice rock-ribbed;An eagle that has soared from ...
"THREE horsemen galloped the dusty way While sun and moon were both in the sky; An old crone crouched ...
A life that is free as the bandit's of old,When Rome was the prey of the warriers boldWho knew how ...
925Struck, was I, not yet by Lightning-Lightning-lets awayPower to perceive His ProcessWith Vitality.Maimed-was I-yet not by Venture-Stone of stolid Boy-Nor ...
It may be, when this city of the nine gates Is broken down by ruinous old age, And no one ...
It stole in on us like a foot-pad,Somewhere out of the sea and air,Heavy with rifling PolarisAnd the Seven Stars.It ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
Since Reverend Doctors now declare That clerks and people must prepare To doubt if Adam ever were; To hold the ...
Struck, was I, not yet by Lightning -- Lightning -- lets away Power to perceive His Process With Vitality. Maimed ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Not under foreign skies Nor under foreign wings protected - I shared all this with my own people There, where ...
I lived among great houses, Riches drove out rank, Base drove out the better blood, And mind and body shrank. ...
From noiseful arms, and acts of prowess done In tournament or tilt, Sir Percivale, Whom Arthur and his knighthood called ...
O purblind race of miserable men, How many among us at this very hour Do forge a life-long trouble for ...
The brave Geraint, a knight of Arthur's court, A tributary prince of Devon, one Of that great Order of the ...
The mule-skinner was Bill Jerome, the passengers were three; Two tinhorns from the dives of Nome, and Father Tim McGee. ...
I know how father's strap would feel, If ever I were caught, So mother's jam I did not steal, Though ...
Momus is the name men give your face, The brag of its tone, like a long low steamboat whistle Finding ...
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