Railway Dreamings (Alexander Anderson Poems)
I work upon the line to-day, The rails on either side of me,But all my fancies wing their way, Like ...
I work upon the line to-day, The rails on either side of me,But all my fancies wing their way, Like ...
After the funeral, mule praises, brays,Windshake of sailshaped ears, muffle-toed tapTap happily of one peg in the thickGrave's foot, blinds ...
With these two kisses on thine eyes I melt thy sleep away-arise! For look, my love, Phobus his ...
Within the wooded avenue I stood, And I was proud.I looked upon the scene and found it good; For here, ...
O DEAREST my sister, my sister who sits by the hearth, With lids softly drooping, or lifted up saintly and ...
SING away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird, Always gayest of the gay, Though a woodland roundelay You ne'er sung ...
"I SAW the constellated matin choir Then when they sang together in the dawn,- The morning stars of this first ...
Awake! awake! Sleep no more, my gentle mate! ...
Muse of my native land! loftiest Muse! O first-born on the mountains! by the hues Of heaven on the spiritual ...
Give me a golden pen, and let me lean On heaped-up flowers, in regions clear, and far; Bring me a ...
Sunday mornings I would reach high into his dark closet while standing on a chair and tiptoeing reach higher, touching, ...
STEP me now a bridal measure, Work give way to love and leisure, Hearts be free and hearts be gay ...
Each small gleam was a voice, A lantern voice -- In little songs of carmine, violet, green, gold. A chorus ...
MY lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish ...
1 O joys! infinite sweetness! with what flow'rs 2 And shoots of glory my soul breaks and buds! 3 All ...
Close on the margin of a brawling brook That bathes the low dell's bosom, stands a Cot; O'ershadow'd by broad ...
... So, praise the gods, Catullus is away! And let me tend you this advice, my dear: Take any lover ...
'Twas in the year of 1897, and on the 22nd of June, Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee in London caused a ...
Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn, Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblam'd? since God ...
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