To F. W. N. A Birthday Offering (John Henry Newman Poems)
Dear Frank, this morn has usher'd in The manhood of thy days;A boy no more, thou must begin To choose thy future ...
Dear Frank, this morn has usher'd in The manhood of thy days;A boy no more, thou must begin To choose thy future ...
I walked beside a dark gray sea. And said, "O world, how cold thou art!Thou poor white world, I pity thee, For ...
Lo, where they play, the fiery squadrons bright,Along the spangled azure of the night;Waving aloft their ensigns, where the whileWheels ...
I.If thou hadst been a sculptor, what a raceOf forms divine had thenceforth filled the land!Methinks I see thee, glorious ...
HE.See the smoke-wreaths how they curl so lightly skywardFrom the ivied cottage nestled in the trees:Such a lovely spot-I really ...
YES, stars were with me formerly. (I also knew the wind and sea; And hill-tops had my feet by heart. ...
Well for youth to seek the strong,Beautiful, and brave!We, the old, who walk alongGently to the grave,Only pay our court ...
How few are they that voyage through the night On that eternal quest,For that strange light beyond our light, That ...
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