After The Battle (Richard Chenevix Trench Poems)
WE crown'd the hard-won heights at length,Baptiz'd in flame and fire;We saw the foeman's sullen strength,That grimly made retire-Saw close ...
WE crown'd the hard-won heights at length,Baptiz'd in flame and fire;We saw the foeman's sullen strength,That grimly made retire-Saw close ...
_"Lord, I believe: help Thou mine unbelief."_We must believe--Being from birth endowed with love and trust--Born unto loving;--and how simply ...
IN tremulous vision, falsely near,The forms of nature as phantoms appear,With the wonted colours of earth and sky,When o'er them ...
TO ------. Bright Aspasia! say-how is it? Tell us with what spell is rife Smile of thine, whose briefest visit Wakes each dullest clod ...
I met a junior-not so junior-anda-many others, who knew 'him' or 'them'long ago, slightly,whom I know. It was the usualcocktail ...
HOW many a budding plant is born to fade!How many a May bloom wilt with quick decay!Ofttimes the ruddiest rose ...
All is noiseless; Cold and voicelessLies the form I've oft caressed;Heedless now of blame or praises,'Neath the sunshine and the daisiesDear, ...
The briefest part of life's uncertain day,Youth's lovely blossom, hastes to swift decay:While love, wine, song, enhance our gayest moodOld ...
While morning yet was young, within his hall Of justice Pharaoh sat: his princes, priests, Judges, and ministers, in costly ...
While thus the gentle Aziel, at the sight Of holiness, to thoughts of Heaven recalled, Stood contrite, watchful,--by far different ...
HASTENED the hardy one, henchmen with him,sandy strand of the sea to treadand widespread ways. The world's great candle,sun shone ...
Come mourn with me for the land of Gosh, Oh, weep with me for the luckless GlugsOf the land of ...
'TIS nine o'clock:-to bed! cried Egremont,Who with his youthful household (for 'tis nowLong since) inhabited a lonely homeIn the Australian ...
These be the fruits, O man who would out-loom The proudest Caesar of Rome's proudest story,When legion after legion marched ...
i am a little church(no great cathedral)far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities-i do not worry if briefer ...
O say thou lovest me; say it o'er again; Ring all the changes on that blissful phrase; Say it with ...
For narrow through their members scattered ways of knowing lie. And many a vile surprise blunts soul and keen desire. ...
She is so present, visible in my mind's eye instantly, at the thought of her, the mere whisper of loving ...
In a cafe, once more I heard Your voice - those sparse and frugal notes. Do they not say that ...
I met a juniorâ?"not so juniorâ?"and a-many others, who knew 'him' or 'them' long ago, slightly, whom I know. It ...
Now is the perfect moment of the year. Half naked branches, half a mist of green, Vivid and delicate the ...
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