Sacred To the Memory of Algernon R. G. Stanhope (Dante Gabriel Rossetti Poems)
THE silver cord is loosed, he said, "The golden bowl is broken; A few more prayers having been prayed, A ...
THE silver cord is loosed, he said, "The golden bowl is broken; A few more prayers having been prayed, A ...
In days of peace my fellow-menRightly regarded me as more likeA Bishop than a Major-Gen.,And nothing since has made me ...
"TO put new shingles on old roofs; To give old women wadded skirts; To treat premonitory coughs With ...
It is asserted, on the authority of an American Newspaper, that thedaughter of Thomas Jefferson, late President of the United ...
List! to that pretty little bird,Singing on yonder bush of thorn;Its plaintive notes I have not heard,Save in the land ...
FORBID, oh Fate! forbid that I Should linger long before I die! Ah, let me not sad day by day ...
Two infants in their cradles lie, Where lullabies of peace In gentle strains of tender music die. And ...
IF, when I kneel to pray, With eager lips I say: "Lord, give me all the things that ...
She knelt, she bore a bold request,Though shy to speak it out:Ambition, even in mother's breast,Before him stood in doubt."What ...
Quiet, quiet dead,Have ye aught to sayFrom your hidden bedIn the earthy clay?Fathers, children, mothers,Ye are very quiet;Can ye shout, ...
Child of distress, who meet'st the bitter scornOf fellow-men to happier prospects born,Doomed Art and Nature's various stores to seeFlow ...
(WHAT THE GHOSTS SAID.)And after all the labour and the pains,After the heaping up of gold on gold,After success that ...
IF I were very sure That all was over betwixt you and me- That, while this endless absence I endure ...
THE Blessed One hath whispered: There are fourPlaces most sacred to believing hearts:First, where the mother's love her Man-child bore,And ...
MEAGRE observance that we make, and lame, With tasks inverted, of Jehovah's day!We at whose hands our fellow-men should claim ...
The roar and rush of life sweeps on;Still shines the sun as once it shone:Men reap and sow and live ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
You may rejoice to think yourselves secure; You may be grateful for the gift divine -- That grace unsought, which ...
My heart was heavy, for its trust had been Abused, its kindness answered with foul wrong; So, turning gloomily from ...
EVEN the shrewd and bitter, Gnarled by the old world's greed, Cherished the stranger softly Seeing his utter need. Shelter ...
Even the shrewd and bitter, Gnarled by the old world's greed, Cherished the stranger softly Seeing his utter need. Shelter ...
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