The Pleasaunce. (Fidelia S T Hill Poems)
Fair Estelle.* * * * *Tho' all neglected now, the time hath beenWhen yon wide pleasaunce was the loveliest scene;When ...
Fair Estelle.* * * * *Tho' all neglected now, the time hath beenWhen yon wide pleasaunce was the loveliest scene;When ...
Still she was fair, although the bloom of youthHad yielded to the hectic of disease,And fever lighted up her brilliant ...
A LONE rose in a garden burned - a quivering flame,But yesterday blindly from out the bud it came;And now ...
It is the sinners' dust-tongued bell claps me to churchesWhen, with his torch and hourglass, like a sulpher priest,His beast ...
I sinned a sin full of pleasure,In an embrace which was warm and fiery.I sinned surrounded by armsthat were hot ...
Come in haste this dusk, dear child. I will be on the water pathWhen your girl friends go laughing by ...
DUSK-HAIRED and gold-robed o'er the golden wineShe stoops, wherein, distilled of death and shame,Sink the black drops; while, lit with ...
A naked youth adores the mocking Sun, With a woman's sidelong eyes and lips, Before unto the formless Sea he ...
Snow fell on winter gardens,a coffin was brought outand the standards unfoldedcaught by the dishevelled breeze.The roadway was desolate,without form ...
Slowly, without force, the rain drops into the city. It stops a moment on the carved head of Saint John, ...
You shall hear how Hiawatha Prayed and fasted in the forest, Not for greater skill in hunting, Not for greater ...
The three stood listening to a fresh access Of wind that caught against the house a moment, Gulped snow, and ...
When Time, or soon or late, shall bring The dreamless sleep that lulls the dead, Oblivion! may thy languid wing ...
TRUE genius, but true woman ! dost deny The woman's nature with a manly scorn And break away the gauds ...
Who will go drive with Fergus now, And pierce the deep wood's woven shade, And dance upon the level shore? ...
Now, man of croziers, shadows called our names And then away, away, like whirling flames; And now fled by, mist-covered, ...
Priam's castle-walls had sunk, Troy in dust and ashes lay, And each Greek, with triumph drunk, Richly laden with his ...
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
Troubled slumbering of things, the curtain blown aside by the gush of the salty wind, the advent of the tide ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
ALL day they loitered by the resting ships, Telling their beauties over, taking stock; At night the verdict left my ...
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