The Children’s Dance (John Wilson Poems)
How calm and beautiful the frosty nightHas stolen unnoticed like the hush of sleepO'er Grassmere-vale! Beneath the mellowing lightHow sinks ...
How calm and beautiful the frosty nightHas stolen unnoticed like the hush of sleepO'er Grassmere-vale! Beneath the mellowing lightHow sinks ...
ITHERE'S not a person in the street, This merry-making summer day! The houses stand in dull array; No profit on ...
Chill penury and winter's powerUpon my soul so hard have prest,That I would fain have seen no moreThe red flow'rs ...
KULLERVO'S EVIL DEEDS.Kullerwionen, youthful wizard,In his blue and scarlet stockings,Henceforth lingered with his parents;But he could not change his nature,Could ...
All on a windy morn in lusty March,Rode Godwin hawking thro' his father's woodsAnd singing as he rode: stalwart was ...
Listen to the Poet's story Of an ancient bell,Freighted with its wreaths of glory, With its fate as well:On Alhambra's ...
DEATH OF LEMMINKAINEN.Lemminkainen, much disheartened,Deeply thought and long considered,What to do, what course to follow,Whether best to leave the wild-mooseIn ...
The ringing bells and the booming cannon Proclaimed on a summer morn That in the good king's royal ...
If ever the time comes for me to dieTake a white birchwood table out there to the river,Set it up ...
JanuaryWHEN snow's on topsAn' hearths are cheery,At a merry-makingChoose thi dearie.FebruaryWhen birds beginTo chirp "Be mine!"Ask her to beThi Valentine.MarchWhen ...
HERE they lie, of graduate ages,All the Birthdays of the Past:Here, upon life's closing pagesLet their gentle doom be cast.Many ...
Dear child! how radiant on thy mother's knee, With merry-making eyes and jocund smiles, Thou gazest at the painted tiles, ...
There trudges one to a merry-making With sturdy swing, On whom the rain comes down. To fetch the saving medicament ...
Life and Thought have gone away Side by side, Leaving door and windows wide. Careless tenants they! All within is ...
It was in the days of a gay British King (In the old fashion'd custom of merry-making) The Palace of ...
Here Jack and Tom are paired with Moll and Meg. Curved open to the river-reach is seen A country merry-making ...
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