Rambles In Waltham Forest (Marguerite Blessington Poems)
LAND of soft showers and far-extending vales,And woodlands fanned by summer's gentlest gales,And streams, that glisten as they steal, half ...
LAND of soft showers and far-extending vales,And woodlands fanned by summer's gentlest gales,And streams, that glisten as they steal, half ...
PART I.There was a young and valiant Knight,Sir Eldred was his name;And never did a worthier wightThe rank of knighthood ...
As one who, journeying, checks the rein in haste Because a chasm doth yawn across his wayToo wide for leaping, and ...
"O TELL me! say, who are yon pensive train ."That crown'd with cypress slowly tread the plain?""Ah! know you not?" ...
The joys that touched thee once, be mine!The sympathies of sky and sea,The friendships of each rock and pine,That made ...
ELEGIAC STANZAS FOUND AMID THE RUINS OF A CELEBRATED ABBEYSHOULD e'er to view this Abbey's ruin'd pileSome fond Enthusiast come ...
DISCOVERED IN A FRIEND'S GARDEN BY FIDEL.MILD evening comes, nor does a breeze prevailTo waft the rose's perfume on the ...
O SHAKESPEARE ! pride of Albion! Bard sublime!Destined to charm the world in after-time,And like the sun, in each succeeding ...
NOR laurel wreath, nor bay, nor myrtle I,Embalm'd I come in Love's soft tear and sigh.A sacred pledge, and proof, ...
I know a village in a far-off landWhere from a sunny, mountain-girdled plainWith tinted walls a space on either handAnd ...
DwellingsYES! we've our Borough-vices, and I knowHow far they spread, how rapidly they grow;Yet think not virtue quits the busy ...
'Among many nations was there no King like him.' -Nehemiah, xiii, 26. 'Know ye not that there is a ...
In Genoa, when the sunset gaveIts last warm purple to the wave,No sound of war, no voice of fear,Was heard, ...
"FOR me, kind Heaven, a lovely Bride"Decked with your choicest gifts, provide!"In wisdom, virtue, beauty, grace,"All other Nymphs ...
TO APOLLON. Bright-haired Apollon! Thou that ever art A blessing to the world! whose generous heart Aye overflows with love ...
Alas! how am I chang'd! Where be the tears,The sobs, and forc'd suspensions of the breath,And all the dull desertions ...
I When of tender mind and body I was moved by minstrelsy, And that strain "The Bridge of Lodi" Brought ...
When Scotland's great Regent, our warrior most dear, The debt of his nature did pay, T' was Edward, the cruel, ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
I know a village in a far-off land Where from a sunny, mountain-girdled plain With tinted walls a space on ...
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