Lines To A Steamboat (George MacDonald Poems)
Dark stranger on the teeming map of fateFabric, that seem'st a thing alike apartFrom aught that nature or that art ...
Dark stranger on the teeming map of fateFabric, that seem'st a thing alike apartFrom aught that nature or that art ...
What fretting loads we mortals bear Through life, whose fading rainbows mockAnd Time, who drives a splendid pair Of steeds ...
The seven fleets of Venice Set sail across the sea For Cyprus and for Trebizond Ayoub and Araby. Their gonfalons ...
One shadow glides from the dumb shore,And one from every silent sail.One cloud the averted heavens wear,A soft mask, thin ...
Who thinks how desolate and strangeTo me must seem the autumn's change,When housed in attic or in chest,A lonely and ...
Good Hope! Since white men's banners First met the seaward breeze,Since first the keels of Europe Swept round ...
There is a memory stays upon old ships,A weightless cargo in the musty hold, --Of bright lagoons and prow-caressing lips,Of ...
Great sea dog, fighter in the great old way! What though thy ships were tinder, and the pest Rotted thy ...
The God of Fair Beginnings Hath prospered here my hand -- The cargoes of my lading, And the keels of ...
BOMBAY Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen Fronting thy richest sea with richer hands -- A thousand mills roar through ...
Away by the lands of the Japanee Where the paper lanterns glow And the crews of all the shipping drink ...
See you the ferny ride that steals Into the oak-woods far? O that was whence they hewed the keels That ...
"Farewell, Romance!" the Cave-men said; "With bone well carved he went away, Flint arms the ignoble arrowhead, And jasper tips ...
(EDWARD VII.) 1910 Who in the Realm to-day lays down dear life for the sake of a land more dear? ...
A dear old couple my grandparents were, And kind to all dumb things; they saw in Heaven The lamb that ...
Before my drift-wood fire I sit, And see, with every waif I burn, Old dreams and fancies coloring it, And ...
NOR judge me light, tho' light at times I seem, And lightly in the stress of fortune bear The innumerable ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
God! ask me not to record your wonders, I admit the stars and the suns And the countless worlds. But ...
Holland, that scarce deserves the name of Land, As but th'Off-scouring of the Brittish Sand; And so much Earth as ...
Far down, down through the city's great, gaunt gut, The gray train rushing bears the weary wind; In the packed ...
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