The Crown Of Empire (George Essex Evans Poems)
Free is the wind that lashes into foamThe fortress waves that gird the Sea-King's homeAnd free the war-worn Flag that ...
Free is the wind that lashes into foamThe fortress waves that gird the Sea-King's homeAnd free the war-worn Flag that ...
Moses sought again the presence of the king:And Pharaoh's brow grew dark with wrath,And rising up in angry haste, he ...
Wake! children of France! shall your tyrant forever Enslave and enchain you, and trample you down? Do you fear the ...
Dead priests that have sung when the world was young at Mercury's temple-place,Your myth, it was true. It is born ...
When o'er the chords thy fingers stray,My spirit leaves its mortal clay, A statue there I stand;Thy spell controls e'en ...
A Tale of Camp Borden Where soldiers build their camp fires, At night there gather 'round ...
Put by the sword (a dreamer saith), The years of peace draw nigh! Already the millennial dawn Makes red the ...
Again the Lord of life and lightAwakes the kindling ray;Unseals the eyelids of the morn,And pours increasing day.O what a ...
November: 1674Cloked in gray threadbare poverty, and blind,Age-weak, and desolate, and beloved of God;High-heartedness to long repulse resign'd,Yet bating not ...
A LITTLE while, with love and youth, He wandered, singing: -- He felt life's pulses hot and strong Beat all ...
And there was stormy silence in that city,A silence of the unborn where it movedIn darkness, piteous, but without pity,Tearing ...
Oh, glorious are the guarded heights Where guardian souls abide-- Self-exiled from our gross delights-- Above, beyond, outside: An ampler ...
Be well assured that on our side The abiding oceans fight, Though headlong wind and heaping tide Make us their ...
When, foot to wheel and back to wind, The helmsman dare not look behind, But hears beyond his compass-light, The ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
NOW spring has clad the grove in green, And strew'd the lea wi' flowers; The furrow'd, waving corn is seen ...
Now Night came down, and rose full soon That patroness of rogues, the Moon; Beneath whose kind protecting ray, Wolves, ...
Queen Guinevere had fled the court, and sat There in the holy house at Almesbury Weeping, none with her save ...
NOT her own sorrow only that hath place Upon yon gentle face. Too slight have been her childhood's years to ...
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
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