Prologue, Intended for “Vortigern” (Henry James Pye Poems)
The cause with learn'd investigation fraught,Behold at length to this tribunal brought,No fraud your penetrating eyes can cheat,None here can ...
The cause with learn'd investigation fraught,Behold at length to this tribunal brought,No fraud your penetrating eyes can cheat,None here can ...
It is the year's high noon, The earth sweet incense yields, And o'er the fresh, green fieldsBends the clear sky of June.I ...
IF all those tumbling babes of heaven,Plump cherubim with blown cheeks,Could vault in these warm skies, or leavenOur starry silent ...
For the sole edificationOf this decent congregation,Goodly people, by your grantI will sing a holy chant --I will sing a ...
That there were giants in the olden timeThese stones cry out; whether before the Flood(As some have dreamt) in earth's ...
ACROSS the hill on which the ancient tree -The patriarchal tree - for centuriesHath stood, the south winds howl in ...
(OF AN UNFINISHED POEM.) Dear woman! star of sad life's clouded heaven,I dedicate myself to thee again; Fair woman! as ...
COME , then, explore with me each winding glen,Far from the noisy haunts of busy men;Let us with stedfast eye ...
I.THOU com'st, in beauty, on my gaze at last,"On Susquehannah's side, fair Wyoming!"Image of many a dream, in hours long ...
In rich Virginian woods,The scarlet creeper reddens over graves,Among the solemn trees enlooped with vines;Heroic spirits haunt the solitudes,—The noble ...
Parting for Australia.HERE sitting by the fire I aspire, love, I aspire-- Not to that "other world" of your fond ...
He prospered in an olden day When down the rutted waggon track,Thro' scenes that seem a world away, His bullocks ...
PRELUDE. Pleasant it was, when woods were green, And winds were soft and low, To lie amid some sylvan scene, ...
Pleasant it was, when woods were green, And winds were soft and low, To lie amid some sylvan scene. Where, ...
You can see it already: chalks and ochers; Country crossed with a thousand furrow-lines; Ground-level rooftops hidden by the shrubbery; ...
In our relationships to one another, to the creator all of creation, the world what would it matter, would there ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
MY lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! No mercenary bard his homage pays; With honest pride, I scorn each selfish ...
I found a torrent falling in a glen Where the sun's light shone silvered and leaf-split; The boom, the foam, ...
The track that led to Carmody's is choked and overgrown, The suckers of the stringybark have made the place their ...
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