After Reading Homer (Digby Mackworth Dolben Poems)
Happy the man, who on the mountain-sideBending o'er fern and flowers his basket fills:Yet he will never know the outline-power,The ...
Happy the man, who on the mountain-sideBending o'er fern and flowers his basket fills:Yet he will never know the outline-power,The ...
To the City of Bombay The Cities are full of pride, Challenging each to each -- This from her mountain-side, ...
"Farewell, Romance!" the Cave-men said; "With bone well carved he went away, Flint arms the ignoble arrowhead, And jasper tips ...
Imprimis he was "broke." Thereafter left His Regiment and, later, took to drink; Then, having lost the balance of his ...
To the City of Bombay The Cities are full of pride, Challenging each to each -- This from her mountain-side, ...
Love I was shewn upon the mountain-side And bid to catch Him ere the dropp of day. See, Love, I ...
The sky is dark and the hills are white As the storm-king speeds from the north to-night, And this is ...
The mountain brook sung lonesomelike, and loitered on its way Ez if it waited for a child to jine it ...
I. The morn when first it thunders in March, The eel in the pond gives a leap, they say: As ...
SHORTLY AFTER THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING IN EUROPE. Let us begin and carry up this corpse, Singing together. Leave we ...
A Child's Story Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall ...
Through Alpine meadows soft-suffused With rain, where thick the crocus blows, Past the dark forges long disused, The mule-track from ...
I What shall I do with this absurdity - O heart, O troubled heart - this caricature, Decrepit age that ...
Saddle and ride, I heard a man say, Out of Ben Bulben and Knocknarea, What says the Clock in the ...
(Newdigate prize poem recited in the Sheldonian Theatre Oxford June 26th, 1878. To my friend George Fleming author of 'The ...
Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, ...
I There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came heavily and fell in floods; But now ...
Lucilla, wedded to Lucretius, found Her master cold; for when the morning flush Of passion and the first embrace had ...
Blue in the west the mountain stands, And through the long twilight Vickery sits with folded hands, And Vickery's eyes ...
It lies beyond the Western Pines Towards the sinking sun, And not a survey mark defines The bounds of "Brumby's ...
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I ...
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