A Story Of Carn Brea – Book First (John Harris Poems)
ARGUMENT.THE Poem opens with an Allusion to bright Gems and noble Minds often shining amid Rubbish and Barrenness-Song of the ...
ARGUMENT.THE Poem opens with an Allusion to bright Gems and noble Minds often shining amid Rubbish and Barrenness-Song of the ...
(A Romance.)December 11th, 1867.The fleecy clouds had passed awayBefore the bright approach of day,And now the morning's radiance shinesUpon an ...
Withering and keen the winter comesWhile comfort flyes to close shut roomsAnd sees the snow in feathers passWinnowing by the ...
OF a thousand queer meetings, both great, sir, and smallThe bird-party I sing of seemed oddest of all!How they come ...
UP a dark and fetid alley, where the offal and the slimeOf a brave and blusterous city met its misery ...
The sounds are the sea, breaking out of sight,and down the green slope the children's voicesthat celebrate the fact of ...
The broken soldier sings and whistles day to dark; He's but the remnant of a man, maimed and half-blind,But the soul ...
I'd watched the hills drink the last colour of light,All shapes grow bright and wane on the pale air,Till down ...
Warped. gland-dry.With spine askewAnd body shrunken into half its space.Well-used as some cracked paving-stone.Bearing on his grimed and pitted frontA ...
PROCRASTINATION.Love will expire--the gay, the happy dreamWill turn to scorn, indiff'rence, or esteem:Some favour'd pairs, in this exchange, are blest,Nor ...
Down at Devine's Hotel — where night and dayThe noises of the harbour find their way,The endless stir of ships ...
The floods were out. Far as the boundOf sight was one stupendous roundOf flat and sluggish crawling water!As, from a ...
My cousin fair, dear Mary B,Excuse my long neglect I pray,And pardon too, the homely strain,In which I sing this ...
In Lady Dock, in Lady Dock, the ships from far and wideLay down their loads of fragrant deals the dusky ...
"Green gardens in Laventie! Soldiers only know the street Where the mud is churned and splashed about By battle-wending feet; ...
The glory of the beauty of the morning, -The cuckoo crying over the untouched dew;The blackbird that has found it, ...
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
The glory of the beauty of the morning, - The cuckoo crying over the untouched dew; The blackbird that has ...
"I'm going, Billy, old fellow. Hist, lad! Don't make any noise. There's Boches to beat all creation, the pitch of ...
I ASKED the Mayor of Gary about the 12-hour day and the 7-day week. And the Mayor of Gary answered ...
Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, ...
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