Beechenbrook – VI (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
The lull of the Winter is over; and Spring Comes back, as delicious and buoyant a thing, As airy, and fairy, and ...
The lull of the Winter is over; and Spring Comes back, as delicious and buoyant a thing, As airy, and fairy, and ...
The sunset on Judah's high places grew pale, And purple tints shadowed the gorge and the vale, While Venus in beauty, with ...
Round them a fierce, wide, crazy noonHeaves with crushed lips and glowing sidesAgainst the huge and drowsy sun.Beneath them turn ...
Leave him here in the freshgreening grasses and treesAnd the symbols of love, and the solace of these-The saintly white ...
Life taught me long agothat music and poetryare the most beautiful things on earththat life can give us.Except for love, ...
A pulseless languor lay upon the sea,The solemn mountains rested in their calm,The mighty forests slumbered, and the palmAbove the ...
Gazing upon the toiling seas,In gloomy rows the silent captives sate;And as the ship rode off before the breeze,They murmured ...
An Incident in One Act.PERSONS. THE KING, THE QUEEN, EARL ATHULF, THE MINSTREL.Heralds, Pages, Men-at-Arms, Sentries. TIME: THE PAST.SCENE:Night in ...
Accurs?d to the Medes, as to himself, That fatal hour when,--mad with fiercest hate,-- His private wrong on one man ...
Tom Hill was in the saddle,One bright November morn,The echoing glades of Guiting WoodWere ringing with his horn.The diamonds of ...
THE trees have now hid at the edge of the hurstThe spot where the ruins decayOf the cottage, where Will ...
She knelt in prayer. A stream of sunset fellThro' the stain'd window of her lonely cell,And with its rich, deep, ...
A fable told by La Fontaine, Two centuries or more ago, Describes some rats who would arraign A cat, their ...
Amid the mystic fields of Love I wander'd, and beheld a grove. ...
Onward to her destination, O'er the stream that Hannah sped,When a cry of consternation Smote and chilled our hearts with ...
Onward to her destination,O'er the stream the Hannah sped,When a cry of consternationSmote and chilled our hearts with dread.Wildly leaping, ...
They looked at one other breathlessly and in silence, the two lovers. Their eyes were steady and clear, but hollow ...
A journey, not an end, a way to walk in life as disciples, faithful followers of our risen lord never ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Safe in the magic of my woods I lay, and watched the dying light. Faint in the pale high solitudes, ...
Man looking into the sea, taking the view from those who have as much right to it as you have ...
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