Christmass (John Clare Poem)
Christmass is come and every hearth Makes room to give him welcome now Een want will dry its tears in ...
Christmass is come and every hearth Makes room to give him welcome now Een want will dry its tears in ...
If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move ...
Brightly the sun of summer shone, Green fields and waving woods upon, And soft winds wandered by; Above, a sky ...
She's gone -- and twice the summer's sun Has gilt Regina's towers, And melted wild Angora's snows, And warmed Exina's ...
WHEN Jessie comes with her soft breast, And yields the golden keys, Then is it as if God caress'd Twin ...
The day is done, the winter sun Is setting in its sullen sky; And drear the course that has been ...
Hope was but a timid friend; She sat without the grated den, Watching how my fate would tend, Even as ...
These hearts were woven of human joys and cares, Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth. The years had given ...
These hearts were woven of human joys and cares, Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth. The years had given ...
These hearts were woven of human joys and cares, Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth. The years had given ...
I had eight birds hatched in one nest, Four cocks there were, and hens the rest. I nursed them up ...
As loving hind that (hartless) wants her deer, Scuds through the woods and fern with hark'ning ear, Perplext, in every ...
All things within this fading world hath end, Adversity doth still our joys attend; No ties so strong, no friends ...
1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
Think'st thou I saw thy beauteous eyes, Suffus'd in tears, implore to stay; And heard unmov'd thy plenteous sighs, Which ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
Sweet girl! though only once we met, That meeting I shall ne'er forget; And though we ne'er may meet again, ...
O! had my Fate been join'd with thine, As once this pledge appear'd a token, These follies had not, then, ...
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
I TRUTH is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost ...
I. How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn-evenings come: And where, my soul, ...
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was ...
The grey sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little waves ...
Chorus.-Lassie wi'the lint-white locks, Bonie lassie, artless lassie, Wilt thou wi' me tent the flocks, Wilt thou be my Dearie, ...
THE DAY returns, my bosom burns, The blissful day we twa did meet: Tho' winter wild in tempest toil'd, Ne'er ...
O BONIE was yon rosy brier, That blooms sae far frae haunt o' man; And bonie she, and ah, how ...
'TWAS even-the dewy fields were green, On every blade the pearls hang; The zephyr wanton'd round the bean, And bore ...
WHILE winds frae aff Ben-Lomond blaw, An' bar the doors wi' driving snaw, An' hing us owre the ingle, I ...
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