Night And Sleep (Coventry Patmore Poems)
How strange at night to wake And watch, while others sleep, ...
How strange at night to wake And watch, while others sleep, ...
Upon a flow'ry Bed Beneath a Willow's pleasant shade, Beside a crystal Flood his Love--sick Head The melancholy Baker laid: ...
Adown the grass-grown paths we strayed, The evening cowslips ope'dTheir yellow eyes ...
Transforming themselves into Flies. LITTLE queen of elves and fays,Fancy's wand thy charm betrays,To her musing eye reveal'd,Tho' in form ...
TUNE--"ROY'S WIFE." CHORUS. DEIGN to love me, charming MARY !Deign to love me, charming MARY !Ease this love-sick heart of ...
SO full my thoughts are of thee, that I swear All else is hateful to my troubl'd soul; ...
O thou, who, 'mid the forest trees, With thy harmonious trembling strain,Could'st change at once to soothing ease, My love-sick ...
Translated From the Hindustani of Miyan Jagnu (eighteenth century).A love-sick heart dies when the heart is whole,For all the heart's ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy To those who woo her with too slavish knees, But makes ...
Thou art to all lost love the best, The only true plant found, Wherewith young men and maids distrest And ...
I AM the bard known far and wide, The travell'd rat-catcher beside; A man most needful to this town, So ...
[First published in Schiller's Horen, in connection with a friendly contest in the art of ballad-writing between the two great ...
O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down Thro' the clear windows of the morning, turn Thine angel eyes upon ...
When silver snow decks Susan's clothes, And jewel hangs at th' shepherd's nose, The blushing bank is all my care, ...
An age in her embraces passed Would seem a winter's day; When life and light, with envious haste, Are torn ...
THE indications, and tally of time; Perfect sanity shows the master among philosophs; Time, always without flaw, indicates itself in ...
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
If thou didst feed on western plains of yore Or waddle wide with flat and flabby feet Over some Cambrian ...
Before those cruel twins whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth, had hunted ...
Immortal! William Shakespeare, there's none can you excel, You have drawn out your characters remarkably well, Which is delightful for ...
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