Gondoline (Henry Kirke White Poems)
The night it was still, and the moon it shoneSerenely on the sea,And the waves at the foot of the ...
The night it was still, and the moon it shoneSerenely on the sea,And the waves at the foot of the ...
Bumkinet, GrubbinolBumkinet.Why, Grubbinol, dost thou so wistful seem?There's sorrow in thy look, if right I deem.'Tis true, yon oaks with ...
The Raven croak'd as she sate at her meal,And the Old Woman knew what he said,And she grew pale at ...
The shower is past, and the sky O'erhead is both mild and serene, Save where a few drops from on high, Like gems, ...
Two mice, dear boy, of genteel fashion,And, what is more, good education,Frolic and gay, in infant yearsEqually shared their parents' ...
Half awake and half dozing,Struck by a drear reality, but still lostIn an inner sea fog of Danaidean dreamsI stand ...
At Market-Hill, as well appears By chronicle of ancient date,There stood for many hundred years A spacious thorn before the gate.Hither came ...
THERE WAS a Squatter in the land- So runs the truthful tale I tell-There also were three cornstalks, and There also was ...
WHO knoweth the hope that was born to me,When the spring - time came with its greenery!With orchard blossoming, fair ...
They ask me to sing them a Christmas song That with musical mirth shall ring;How know I that the world's ...
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE (wailing dismally):"Who can deliver us, Lord of our destiny! Out of the depths comes our passionate ...
IThe incognizable kings of Night, within their unrevealed abyssHave built them a metropolis against the kingdoms of the light.Its mountain-passing ...
These hills are sandy. Trees are dwarfed here. CrowsCaw dismally in skies of an arid brilliance,Complain in dusty pine-trees. Yellow ...
I would rather be the daddy Of a romping, roguish crew,Of a bright-eyed chubby laddie And a little ...
We've got another mouth to feed,From out our little store;To satisfy another's needIs now my daily chore.A growing family is ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
To visit the Escurial We took a motor bus, And there a guide mercurial Took charge of us. He showed ...
Author Note: The story of the following ballad was related to me, when a school boy, as a fact which ...
The Raven croak'd as she sate at her meal, And the Old Woman knew what he said, And she grew ...
It is the longest night in all the year, Near on the day when the Lord Christ was born; Six ...
Had she come all the way for this, To part at last without a kiss? Yea, had she borne the ...
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