At Lincoln (Oscar Fay Adams Poems)
When I went up the minster tower,The minster clock rang out the hour;The restless organ far belowSent tides of music ...
Poems about evensong (21 Poems)
Lines (Louisa Lawson Poems)
Oh, there is a being that haunteth my dreamsWhen night sendeth slumber to me,So like thee that of ten in ...
Evensong (Mathilde Blind Poems)
(Holy Trinity Church.)THE hectic autumn's dilatory fire Has turned this lime tree to a sevenfold brand, Which, self consuming, lights the sunless ...
An Epitaph (Stephen Hawes Poems)
O MORTAL folk, you may behold and seeHow I lie here, sometime a mighty knight;The end of joy and all ...
Athelston (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
Lord that is off myghtys most, Fadyr and Sone and Holy Gost,Bryng us out of synneAnd lene us grace so ...
Quarterman’s Grace. Part II (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
The fields and lanes show fresh and fain Pranked in the jewels of the rain; And the scent that breathes ...
In an Almshouse (Augusta Davies Webster Poems)
Oh the dear summer evening! How the air is mellow with the delicate breath of flowers and wafts of hay ...
The Leper (Algernon Charles Swinburne Poems)
NOTHING is better, I well think, Than love; the hidden well-waterIs not so delicate to drink: This was ...
Heard On The Mountain (Francis Thompson Poems)
From Hugo's 'Feuilles d'Automne'.Have you sometimes, calm, silent, let your tread aspirant riseUp to the mountain's summit, in the presence ...
The Courtship Of Young John (Alice Guerin Crist Poems)
Fields of lucerne and waving wheat,White-washed sheds, and cottage neat,Nesting orchards and mulberry trees,Scented flowers round hives of bees,With the ...
The Stricken Peasant (C Henry Warren Poems)
DIM twilight here; and in her singing mind Dim twilight too. Shut in this darkened room, Over whose broad-beamed walls ...
O City, Look The Eastward Way (Enid Derham Poems)
O CITY, look the Eastward way! Beyond thy roofs of shadowy red and grey Floats like a lily on ...
King’s College Chapel (Charles Causley Poems)
When to the music of Byrd or Tallis,The ruffed boys singing in the blackened stalls,The candles lighting the small bones ...
The Darkling Thrush (Thomas Hardy Poem)
I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. ...
Verses Turned… (John Betjeman Poem)
Across the wet November night The church is bright with candlelight And waiting Evensong. A single bell with plaintive strokes ...
The Plantster’s Vision (John Betjeman Poems)
Cut down that timber! Bells, too many and strong, Pouring their music through the branches bare, From moon-white church towers ...
Diary of a Church Mouse (John Betjeman Poem)
Here among long-discarded cassocks, Damp stools, and half-split open hassocks, Here where the vicar never looks I nibble through old ...
Seven (Robert William Service Poems)
If on water and sweet bread Seven years I'll add to life, For me will no blood be shed, No ...
To the Muse (Robert Louis Stevenson Poems)
Resign the rhapsody, the dream, To men of larger reach; Be ours the quest of a plain theme, The piety ...
In Lovers’ Lane (Lucy Maud Montgomery Poems)
I know a place for loitering feet Deep in the valley where the breeze Makes melody in lichened boughs, And ...
King Arthur’s Tomb (William Morris Poems)
Hot August noon: already on that day Since sunrise through the Wiltshire downs, most sad Of mouth and eye, he ...