Awake, My Heart (Robert Seymour Bridges Poem)
Awake, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake! The darkness silvers away, the morn doth break, It leaps in the ...
Awake, my heart, to be loved, awake, awake! The darkness silvers away, the morn doth break, It leaps in the ...
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
IF thou be in a lonely place, If one hour's calm be thine, As Evening bends her placid face O'er ...
I. THE GARDEN. ABOVE the city hung the moon, Right o'er a plot of ground Where flowers and orchard-trees were ...
BUT two miles more, and then we rest ! Well, there is still an hour of day, And long the ...
ARRANGING long-locked drawers and shelves Of cabinets, shut up for years, What a strange task we've set ourselves ! How ...
The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mateless play; ...
'Tis moonlight, summer moonlight, All soft and still and fair; The solemn hour of midnight Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere, But ...
'Tis moonlight, summer moonlight, All soft and still and fair; The solemn hour of midnight Breathes sweet thoughts everywhere, But ...
The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow ; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And ...
The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow ; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And ...
Death! that struck when I was most confiding In my certain faith of joy to be - Strike again, Time's ...
The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by, As if they loved to breast the breeze ...
It is a sultry day; the sun has drank The dew that lay upon the morning grass, There is no ...
Here, where love's stuff is body, arm and side Are stabbing-sweet 'gainst chair and lamp and wall. In every touch ...
The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the ...
Here the flame that was ash, shrine that was void, lost in the haunted wood, I have tended and loved, ...
My restless blood now lies a-quiver, Knowing that always, exquisitely, This April twilight on the river Stirs anguish in the ...
Voices out of the shade that cried, And long noon in the hot calm places, And children's play by the ...
I had eight birds hatched in one nest, Four cocks there were, and hens the rest. I nursed them up ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
Gods, what a black, fierce day! The clouds were iron, Wrenched to strange, rugged shapes; the red sun winked Over ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard; It is the hour -- when ...
Spot of my youth! whose hoary branches sigh, Swept by the breeze that fans thy cloudless sky; Where now alone ...
When all around grew drear and dark, And reason half withheld her ray- And hope but shed a dying spark ...
WHEN with closed eyes in autumn's eves of gold I breathe the burning odours of your breast, Before my eyes ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
I TRUTH is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost ...
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