Beauty Of Worship (Archbishop William Alexander Poems)
GROWTH AND OVERGROWTHI: GROWTH Oft have I mused what use the ancients madeOf solemn service and of stately form,On what ...
GROWTH AND OVERGROWTHI: GROWTH Oft have I mused what use the ancients madeOf solemn service and of stately form,On what ...
WHAT lapse or accident of timeCan dull that soul's sonorous chimeWhich owns the priceless heritage -Youth's summer warmth in wintry ...
August 2: 1100Where the greenwood is greenestAt gloaming of day,Where the twelve-antler'd stagFaces boldest at bay;Where the solitude deepens,Till almost ...
IN the Dean's porch a nest of clay With five small tentants may be seen; Five solemn faces, each ...
But once I saw her, with the auburn hairIn rich profusion, shading her pure cheek,A cheek of beauty, and so ...
Evil sped the battle playOn the Pope Calixtus' day;Mighty war-smiths, thanes and lords,In Senlac slept the sleep of swords.Harold Earl, ...
WHETHER a ship's poetic? — Bowles would own,If here he dwelt, where Nature is prosaic,Unpicturesque, unmusical, and whereNature-reflecting Art is ...
WHEN the deep cunning architectHad the great minster planned,They worked in faith for twice two hundred yearsAnd reared the building ...
The singer stood in a blaze of light,And fronted the flowery throng; Her lips parted with her greeting smile,Her soul ...
TIMID strangers, I can fancy How amidst the hedge ye grew, While the gusty winds of Autumn Coloured leaves upon ...
White, glittering sunlight fills the market square, Spotted and sprigged with shadows. Double rows Of bartering booths spread out their ...
Oft have I seen at some cathedral door . A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat, . Lay down ...
Vogelweid the Minnesinger, When he left this world of ours, Laid his body in the cloister, Under Wurtzburg's minster towers. ...
though there's not much faith left and very little snow this scene of wimborne minster still makes its christmas show ...
Once more the gate behind me falls; Once more before my face I see the moulder'd Abbey-walls, That stand within ...
Leodogran, the King of Cameliard, Had one fair daughter, and none other child; And she was the fairest of all ...
Mournful groans, as when a tempest lowers, Echo from the dreary house of woe; Death-notes rise from yonder minster's towers! ...
"Lo I, the man who erst the Muse did ask Her deepest notes to swell the Patriot's meeds, Am now ...
Chill penury repress'd his noble rage, And froze the genial current of his soul. GRAY. IF GRIEF can deprecate the ...
It is the longest night in all the year, Near on the day when the Lord Christ was born; Six ...
When the vexed hubbub of our world of gain Roars round about me as I walk the street, The myriad ...
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