The Foster-Child (Mary Elizabeth Robinson Poems)
IN IMITATION OF SPENCER.CANTO I.'MID Cambria's hills a lowly cottage stood,Circled with mossy tufts of sombre green;A vagrant brook flow'd ...
IN IMITATION OF SPENCER.CANTO I.'MID Cambria's hills a lowly cottage stood,Circled with mossy tufts of sombre green;A vagrant brook flow'd ...
Should poverty, modest and clean, E'er please, when presented to view, Should cabin on brown heath, or green, Disclose aught engaging to you, Should ...
I had rather write one word upon the rockOf ages than ten thousand in the sand.The rock of ages! lo ...
Nature now spreads around in dreary hueA pall to cover all that summer knewYet in the poets solitary waySome pleasing ...
The western gale,Mild as the kisses of connubial love,Plays round my languid limbs, as all dissolved,Beneath the ancient elm's fantastic ...
Within a home for captive beastsWhose world had dwindled to a cage,I noted in their mournful eyesSuch resignation, fear, and ...
THE man that joins in life's careerAnd hopes to find some comfort here,To rise above this earthly mass,-The only way's ...
I AM sitting hereSince the moon rose in the night,Kindling a fire,And striving to keep it alight;The folk of the ...
(_By Sir Giles, whom the Witch of Urm leads to Judas Iscariot_) Against a castle moated gloomily by a bitter ...
The cock is crowing,The cows are lowing,The ducks are quarking,The dogs are barking,The ass is braying,The horse is neighing;Was there ...
The cock is crowing,The cows are lowing,The ducks are quarking,The dogs are barking,The ass is braying,The horse is neighing;Was there ...
Earth loves her young: a preference manifest:She prompts them to her fruits and flower-beds;Their beauty with her choicest interthreads,And makes ...
I like the old house tolerably well, Where I must dwell Like a familiar gnome; And yet I never shall ...
LUBIN and KATE, as gossips tell, Were Lovers many a day; LUBIN the damsel lov'd so well, That folks pretend ...
The five old bells Are hurrying and eagerly calling, Imploring, protesting They know, but clamorously falling Into gabbling incoherence, never ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories