Autumn: Tuesday Evening (John Bowring Poems)
Stillness reigns—the vapours stealSlowly down the mountain's brow,And the evening shadows veilNature's face of brightness now;Flowers put off their glorious ...
Stillness reigns—the vapours stealSlowly down the mountain's brow,And the evening shadows veilNature's face of brightness now;Flowers put off their glorious ...
Silence now reigns in the corridors wide,The stately rooms of that mansion of pride;The music is hushed, the revellers gone,The ...
FAREWELL thou restless world, whose unsound joy,False hopes, and vain pursuits, man's life destroy;Poison in golden cups thou gav'st to ...
They brought them up from their huts in the fens, The woeful sufferers gaunt and grim;They flocked from the city's noisome ...
When shall we meet again? One more year passed;One more of grief and pain;-- Maybe the last.Are the years sending us Farther apart?Or ...
Act III.SCENE I. The studio of the Spagnoletto. RIBERA before his canvas. LUCA in attendance.RIBERA (laying aside his brush).So! I ...
A Historical Tragedy in Five Acts.This play is dedicated, in profound veneration and respect, to thememory of George Eliot, the ...
I. OF all that men with zeal and ardour chace, Pour'd here and there on life's promiscuous ground,Some points are ...
WITH our late Vicar, and his age the same,His clerk, hight Jachin, to his office came;The like slow speech was ...
Still the loud death drum, thundering from afar,O'er the vext nations pours the storm of war:To the stern call still ...
O THOU ! to whom each thought unchanging tends,To thee these lines a wretched captive sends.In vain did love our ...
On what sweet shore the blue AEgean laves, Where loveliness is wedded to decay, -- Beauty to desolation, -- 'mid ...
On such a day the shrunken streamSpends its last water and runs dry;Clouds like far turrets in a dreamStand baseless ...
Yet do not thou forsake me now, Poesy, with Peace-together!Ere this last disastrous blowDid lay my struggling fortunes low,In ...
I entered the wide spreading streets - methoughtOf a vast city; all was bustle there:Crowds hurried on with eager looks ...
THE alert and valiant faith that could respond,Upon life's threshold, to the highest call,Unquestioning of what might lie beyond,-Courage afield ...
Fair flower of Christmas - white chrysanthemum!I mark thy blossoms wave, thy fragile formBend to the breeze, yet brave the ...
637The Child's faith is new-Whole-like His Principle-Wide-like the SunriseOn fresh Eyes-Never had a Doubt-Laughs-at a Scruple-Believes all shamBut Paradise-Credits the ...
What is unwisdom but the lusting after Longevity: to be old and full of days! For the vast and unremitting ...
The Child's faith is new -- Whole -- like His Principle -- Wide -- like the Sunrise On fresh Eyes ...
How baseless is the mightiest earthly pride, The diamond is but charcoal purified, The lordliest pearl that decks a monarch's ...
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