Sonnet XXXVII. To Winter. Written At Ampton, Suffolk. (Henry Alford Poems)
Welcome, stern Winter, though thy brows are bound With no fresh flowers, and ditties none thou hast But the wild music of ...
Welcome, stern Winter, though thy brows are bound With no fresh flowers, and ditties none thou hast But the wild music of ...
Beyond the sea a land of heroes lies,Of fairy heaths and rivers, mountains steep,O'ergrown with vine - her memory I ...
With eager search to dart the soul,Curiously vain, from pole to pole,And from the planets' wandering spheresTo extort the number ...
SILENT old gateway! whose two columns stand Like simple monuments on either hand; No trellised iron-work, with pleasant view Of ...
KULLERVO AS A SHEPHERD.Kullerwoinen, wizard-servantOf the blacksmith, Ilmarinen,Purchased slave from Untamoinen,Magic son with sky-blue stockings.,With a head of golden ringlets,In ...
O to go out once more and see the moon's clear shining Break on the waters into silver bars,Hear ...
What are the heaths and hills to me? I'm a-longing for the sea! What are the ...
My heart is full of inarticulate pain,And beats laborious. Cold ungenial looksInvade my sanctuary. Men of gain,Wise in success, well-read ...
Half a long life 'mid Scotland's heaths and pines,And half among our South Australian vines;Though loving reverence bound her to ...
ENDYMION. A Poetic Romance. "THE STRETCHED METRE OF AN AN ANTIQUE SONG." INSCRIBED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. Book ...
"ALIVE?"--And I leapt in my wonder, Was faint of my joyance, And grasses and grove shone in garments Of glory ...
Thou know'st my praise of nature most sincere, And that my raptures are not conjur'd up To serve occasions of ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below! Now my brothers call from the bay, Now the great ...
NO Spartan tube, no Attic shell, No lyre Æolian I awake; 'Tis liberty's bold note I swell, Thy harp, Columbia, ...
Mother of musings, Contemplation sage, Whose grotto stands upon the topmost rock Of Teneriffe; 'mid the tempestuous night, On which, ...
Let Elizur rejoice with the Partridge, who is a prisoner of state and is proud of his keepers. Let Shedeur ...
(Time, Morning. Scene, the Shore.) Once more to daily toil--once more to wear The weeds of infamy--from every joy The ...
A Masque Presented At Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before The Earl Of Bridgewater, Then President Of Wales. The Persons The ATTENDANT ...
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