British Georgics. June (James Grahame Poems)
Beneath the fervour of the noon-tide beamAll Nature's works in placid stillness pause,--Save man, and his joint labourer the horse,The ...
Beneath the fervour of the noon-tide beamAll Nature's works in placid stillness pause,--Save man, and his joint labourer the horse,The ...
YE that have faced the billows and the sprayOf good St. Botolph's island-studded bay,As from the gliding bark your eye ...
I HEARD a Spirit singing as, beyond the morning winging,Its radiant form went swinging like a star:In its song prophetic ...
GOD-kindled soul, brave general of the hostMade strong by Christ! New Judas Maccabeus,Chief conqueror, giving courage for the fight,Victorious alike ...
SPIRIT of song, whose shining wings have borneOur souls of old to many a clear blue height,Comes there the day ...
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gapLeft by the Holy Quest; and as he satIn hall at old ...
Swept from his fleet upon that fatal night When great Poseidon's sudden-veering wrath Scattered the happy homeward-floating Greeks Like foam-flakes ...
August 6th , 1875.Harp of my native landThat lived anew 'neath Carolan's master hand;Harp on whose electric chords,The minstrel Moore's ...
All on a windy morn in lusty March,Rode Godwin hawking thro' his father's woodsAnd singing as he rode: stalwart was ...
TO APOLLON. Bright-haired Apollon! Thou that ever art A blessing to the world! whose generous heart Aye overflows with love ...
When behind her violated border, With unflinching bayonet and gun,Belgium, in heroic battle order, Met the savage onset ...
"IIN silence, solitude and stern surmise His faith was tried and proved commensurate With life and death. The ...
It is the close of day:Over the hill and townThe sun goes down:Clearly from hillside fields with evening grayI hear ...
" HE comes, the happy warrior, The wind has blown him on! He is great ...
King Arthur made new knights to fill the gap Left by the Holy Quest; and as he sat In hall ...
When Bryan speaks, the town's a hive. From miles around, the autos drive. The sparrow chirps. The rooster crows. The ...
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