Palestine; A Prize Poem, Recited In The Theatre, Oxford (Reginald Heber Poems)
Reft of thy sons, amid thy foes forlorn,Mourn, widow'd Queen, forgotten Sion, mourn!Is this thy place, sad city, this thy ...
Reft of thy sons, amid thy foes forlorn,Mourn, widow'd Queen, forgotten Sion, mourn!Is this thy place, sad city, this thy ...
YES, let them gather! Summon forthThe pledged philanthropy of Earth.From every land, whose hills have heardThe bugle blast of Freedom ...
How sadly hath this Sabbath day,O God, been spent by me,Cribbed close beneath a narrow deck,Washed by the frequent sea,An ...
An ancient cannon, finely cast. Of bronze, all smooth and green with age, A by-gone actor on the stage,Yet fit to take, ...
Sir,From the Lazaretto's lofty cells,Where Freedom comes not, but where Hunger dwells,Where floors, walls, ceilings,—all of Malta stone,—Have long replied ...
I.THE suns of eighteen centuries have shoneSince the Redeemer walked with man, and madeThe fisher's boat, the cavern's floor of ...
Black fool, why winter here? These frozen skies,Worn by your wings and deafen'd by your cries,Should warn you hence, where ...
(The only Island on Lake Como, the Lake Larius of the Romans)There sleeps beneath Italian skiesA lovely island rich in ...
No aimless wanderers, by the fiend UnrestGoaded from shore to shore;No schoolmen, turning, in their classic quest,The leaves of empire ...
Oh, we're getting under cover, for the "sport" is on the way,-Pockets bulge with ammunition, and he's coming down to ...
_Air--Stephenos_Lo, a knight in armour standing, Ready for the foe;Thee we greet, belov'd Companion, Thee we know.Keep thine oath, oh new made ...
Stranger! behold, interr'd together,The souls of learning and of leather.Poor Joe is gone, but left his all:You'll find his relics ...
In boundless mercy, the Redeemer left,The bosom of his Father, and assumedA servant's form, though he had reigned a king,In ...
Yet to the wondrous St. Peter's, and yet to the solemn Rotunda, Mingling with heroes and gods, yet to the ...
We're all buying SpitfiresAs fast as we can buySpitfires and HurricanesFor battles in the sky . . . The girls ...
"And there was no more sea." Thus said The Lord in the Vault above the Cherubim Calling to the Angels ...
Look, look, master, here comes two religious caterpillars. The Jew of Malta. POLYPHILOPROGENITIVE The sapient sutlers of the Lord Drift ...
Thou hast committed- Fornication: but that was in another country, And besides, the wench is dead. The Jew of Malta. ...
To the Memory of the Household It Describes This Poem is Dedicated by the Author "As the Spirit of Darkness ...
'Twas in the year of 1897, and on the 22nd of June, Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee in London caused a ...
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