The Fall Of Nineveh. Book The Twenty-Fourth (Edwin Atherstone Poems)
Meantime, Arbaces with his captains sat, Anxiously waiting. Wherefore came not back Their heralds, was the wonder: but the truth ...
Meantime, Arbaces with his captains sat, Anxiously waiting. Wherefore came not back Their heralds, was the wonder: but the truth ...
IWe look for her that sunlike stoodUpon the forehead of our day,An orb of nations, radiating foodFor body and for ...
O Rome, tremendous! who, beholding thee, Shall not forget the bitterest private grief That e'er made havoc of ...
While about the shore of Mona those Neronian legionariesBurnt and broke the grove and altar of the Druid and Druidess,Far ...
Alas! how am I chang'd! Where be the tears,The sobs, and forc'd suspensions of the breath,And all the dull desertions ...
Admit it, my Lord, this just won't do. It just won't do to create like this. To put such an ...
Yer honor, please! the prisoner said, "It isn't wot you think.To look on wine when it is red Or alco'olic ...
I pray you, Christ, to change my heart, To make it whole;Once you took on flesh like mine, ...
A shroud of purple, soiled color royalty mocked, in the prison, in the dungeon a king with a reed for ...
"after flogging Jesus", he was sent to be crucified; but what a cryptic, banal inconsequential piece of prose What unspeakable ...
When we have ceased to care The Gift is given For which we gave the Earth And mortgaged Heaven But ...
Unto like Story -- Trouble has enticed me -- How Kinsmen fell -- Brothers and Sister -- who preferred the ...
To her derided Home A Weed of Summer came -- She did not know her station low Nor Ignominy's Name ...
A Rat surrendered here A brief career of Cheer And Fraud and Fear. Of Ignominy's due Let all addicted to ...
Bid a strong ghost stand at the head That my Michael may sleep sound, Nor cry, nor turn in the ...
My Soul. I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent, Upon the broken, ...
You were the one I wanted most to know So like yet unlike, like fire and snow, The casual voice, ...
While about the shore of Mona those Neronian legionaries Burnt and broke the grove and altar of the Druid and ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
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