Sonnets (Mary Ashley Townsend Poems)
THE DEAD SINGERA POET'S soul has sung its way to God;Has loosed its luminous wings from earthly thongs,And soared to ...
THE DEAD SINGERA POET'S soul has sung its way to God;Has loosed its luminous wings from earthly thongs,And soared to ...
THE flowers are at their Bacchanals Among the lusty green;Wild Orchis and Narcissus waltz With Marguerite for queen.Birds join in glees and ...
We have seen the Queen of cheese, Laying quietly at your ease, Gently fanned by evening breeze — Thy fair form no flies ...
As by the instrument she took her place,The expectant people, breathing sigh nor word,Sat hushed, while o'er the waiting ivory ...
It almost now seems all in vainFor to expect high price for grain,Wheat is grown on Egyptian soilOn the banks ...
The Lady Lorraine was sweet and fair; The Lady Lorraine was young; She had wonderful eyes and glorious hair, And ...
Baby sits upon the floor, Baby's scarce a twelvemonth old;Baby laughs, and _goo-goos_ o'erMemories how a babe of yore Humbled ...
How sweet the brazen belfries chime Across the hills and through the dales, And o'er the breasts of ...
All Things will DieClearly the blue river chimes in its flowing Under my eye;Warmly and broadly the south ...
Sweet fairies from the isles of song, Bewitching choirs from music land, The pleasures of your wondrous band ...
Bill o' Sheepsheawter's;Robin o'th DreeRondle o' Scouter'sTwilter, an' me;We made Mally Grime'sOwd kitchen roof ring,One merry yule-time,When met for to ...
_Our dearest joys forever flow_ _From fountains of the Long Ago,_ _That from the heights of pleasures past_ _Flood all ...
All yesterday the sea was sapphire fair, And the waves told, with little rippling glees, Of ships that sailed, ...
Clearly the blue river chimes in its flowing Under my eye; Warmly and broadly the south winds are blowing Over ...
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