Springbank (Hannah S Battersby Poems)
Dreaming before the cheerful fire, Cushioned in easy chair,Methought a troupe of fairies bright, So blithe and debonair,Trooped gaily in the dim ...
Dreaming before the cheerful fire, Cushioned in easy chair,Methought a troupe of fairies bright, So blithe and debonair,Trooped gaily in the dim ...
CALL on the present day and night for nought,Save what by yesterday was brought.——-THE sea is flowing ever,The land retains ...
The fagots blazed, the caldron's smokeUp through the green wood curled;"Bring honey from the hollow oak,Bring milky sap," the brewers ...
Traveller take heed for journeys undertaken in the dark ofthe year. Go in the bright blaze of Autumn's equinox.Carry protection ...
ERE sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes,Which all the day with ceaseless care have soughtThe magic gold which ...
WHEN o'er the street the morning peal is flungFrom yon tall belfry with the brazen tongue,Its wide vibrations, wafted by ...
I.Man's cruel baseness to his beast! —Poor uncomplaining brute,Its wrongs are innocent at least, And all its sorrows mute:They cannot have deserved ...
Into the sunset's turquoise margeThe moon dips, like a pearly bargeEnchantment sails through magic seasTo faeryland Hesperides,Over the hills and ...
THE BREWING OF BEER.Now we sing the wondrous legends,Songs of wedding-feasts and dances,Sing the melodies of wedlock,Sing the songs of ...
ILMARINEN FORGES THE SAMPO.Wainamoinen, the magician,Takes his steed of copper color,Hitches quick his fleet-foot courser,Puts his racer to the snow-sledge,Straightway ...
ILMARINEN'S WEDDING-FEAST.Louhi, hostess of the Northland,Ancient dame of Sariola,While at work within her dwelling,Heard the whips crack on the fenlands,Heard ...
LEMMINIKAINEN'S SECOND WOOING.Spake the ancient LemminkainenTo the hostess of Pohyola:"Give to me thy lovely daughter,Bring me now thy winsome maiden,Bring ...
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter,And from the orchard a voice echoes and echoes ...
WHEN Jove, in anger to the sons of the earth,Bid artful Vulcan give Pandora birth,And sent the fatal gift which ...
The little Man, and tiny Maid,Who love the Fairies in the glade,Who see them in the tangled grassThe Gnomes and ...
Deare friend, sit down, the tale is long and sad:And in my faintings I presume your loveWill more complie, then ...
San Teodulo, give them vinegar when they thirst.Holy Peter, when they hunger, look the otherway.St. Frigid, if they bleed, have ...
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter, And from the orchard a voice echoes and ...
I Once, only once, I saw it clear, -- That Eden every human heart has dreamed A hundred times, but ...
Mother of musings, Contemplation sage, Whose grotto stands upon the topmost rock Of Teneriffe; 'mid the tempestuous night, On which, ...
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