Sweet William (Robert Henry Forster Poems)
FLOWER of the homely but poetic name,Loved by our fathers' fathers long ago,Unchanging beauty thou hast yet to show,A beauty ...
FLOWER of the homely but poetic name,Loved by our fathers' fathers long ago,Unchanging beauty thou hast yet to show,A beauty ...
On the morning of May,Ere the children had entered my gateWith their wreaths and mechanical lay,A metal ding-dong of the ...
NOW Winter pours his terrors o'er the plain,And icy barriers close the wild domain,From the fierce North the sweeping blast ...
IN seventy five the Critick of our yearsCommenc'd our war with Phillip and his peers.Whither the sun in Leo had ...
DESCRIBE the Borough--though our idle tribeMay love description, can we so describe,That you shall fairly streets and buildings trace,And all ...
A LEGENDIN midst of wide green pasture-lands, cut through By lines of alders bordering deep-banked streams, Where bulrushes ...
SHE walks beside the silent shore, The tide is high, the breeze is still; ...
As the dark cloud passed, I in the crimson shadow of the moon viewed the square and the streets an ...
Mister Chairman; - er - ah - when We right-thinking business men Are treated with ...
WHILE on the meadowy banks of Spey ,Slow steals along the rural muse,And sees the bordering flowers displayTheir native sweets ...
Wellington.HERE, where the surges of a world of seaBreak on our bastioned walls with league-long sweep,Four fair young queens their ...
I PASSED a day on Mosel river,-- A day beginning with the sun; It ended not till light was over, ...
The green roads that end in the forestAre strewn with white goose feathers this June,Life marks left behind by someone ...
Out West, where the stars are brightest, Where the scorching north wind blows, And the bones of the dead gleam ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Beautiful Balmermo on the bonnie banks of Tay, It's a very bonnie spot in the months of June or May; ...
The gh comes from rough, the o from women's, and the ti from unmentionables--presto: there's the perfect English instance of ...
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
He made a line on the blackboard, one bold stroke from right to left diagonally downward and stood back to ...
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