Alfred the Harper (John Sterling Poems)
Dark fell the night, the watch was set,The host was idly spread,The Danes around their watchfires met,Caroused, and fiercely fed.The ...
Dark fell the night, the watch was set,The host was idly spread,The Danes around their watchfires met,Caroused, and fiercely fed.The ...
YORKTOWN.FROM Yorktown's ruins, ranked and still,Two lines stretch far o'er vale and hill:Who curbs his steed at head of one?Hark! ...
ACROSS the frozen marshesThe winds of autumn blow,And the fen-lands of the WetterAre white with early snow.But where the low, ...
The great King Arthur made a royal feast,And held his Royal Christmas at Carlisle,And thither came the vassals, most and ...
"Lost," "lost," the beeves and the bullocks,The cattle men sell and buy,Crowded upon the fair green,Low to the lightless sky."Live," ...
A SCOTS PASTORAL INSCRIBED TO JOHN WILKES, ESQ. Nos patriam fugimus.--VIRGIL.When Cupid first instructs his darts to flyFrom the sly ...
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!Of darkness visible so much be ...
Over the camp-firesDrank I with heroes,Under the Donau bank,Warm in the snow trench:Sagamen heard I there,Men of the Longbeards,Cunning and ...
Miller, whom fair Ierne bore To grace Britannia's happier shore, Whose Genius guides, whose counsel guards The labours of Bathonian ...
GOD of the Harvest, Thou, whose sun Has ripened all the golden grain,We bless Thee for Thy bounteous store,The cup ...
As I was a-walking on Chilbolton Down,I saw an old farmer there driving to town,A-jogging to market behind his old ...
The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you ...
LOVE we the warmth and light of tropic lands, The strange bright fruit, the feathery fanspread leaves, The glowing mornings ...
Thy greatest knew thee, Mother Earth; unsoured He knew thy sons. He probed from hell to hell Of human passions, ...
O purblind race of miserable men, How many among us at this very hour Do forge a life-long trouble for ...
Let Ramah rejoice with Cochineal. Let Gaba rejoice with the Prickly Pear, which the Cochineal feeds on. Let Nebo rejoice ...
SMOKE of the fields in spring is one, Smoke of the leaves in autumn another. Smoke of a steel-mill roof ...
You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put ...
As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven lives; Seven lives, In seven sacks, Like ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you ...
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