Afternoon At A Parsonage (Jean Ingelow Poems)
(THE PARSON’S BROTHER, SISTER, AND TWO CHILDREN)Preface.What wonder man should fail to stay A nursling wafted from above,The growth celestial come ...
(THE PARSON’S BROTHER, SISTER, AND TWO CHILDREN)Preface.What wonder man should fail to stay A nursling wafted from above,The growth celestial come ...
(Written in her sixteenth year)BRIGHTLY o'er spire, and dome, and tower,The pale moon shone at midnight hour,While all beneath her ...
NOW had the season returned, when the nights grow colder and longer,And the retreating sun the sign of the Scorpion ...
GOD-kindled soul, brave general of the hostMade strong by Christ! New Judas Maccabeus,Chief conqueror, giving courage for the fight,Victorious alike ...
In Eden's green retreats,A water-brook,—that playedBetween soft, mossy seats,Beneath a plane-tree's shade,Whose rustling leavesDanced o'er its brink,—Was Adam's drink,And also ...
AWAKE, my darling ! Open those bright eyes, dark and deep,And scatter from thine eyelids the heavy shades of sleep.Sweet ...
Under my wall And plane-tree tallThe lake's blue wavelets rise and fall; In they creep, Out they sweep,And ever their rhythmic measure keep,As ...
Evening is here. Some pigeons cross the sky.Nothing so well an amorous fever chainsAs when with pipe to lip its ...
What art thou, say, a bird, or beast, or what?Leering from that old plane-tree's hollow stem!Thine eyes have something criminal ...
What art thou, say, a bird, or beast, or what?Leering from that old plane-tree's hollow stem!Thine eyes have something criminal ...
IBecause the currents of our love are pouredThrough the slow welter of the primal floodFrom some blind source of monster-haunted ...
LAST night again we saw him thereBeneath the plane-tree in the Square,Our student neighbour.He watches every evening nowOur garden tennis, ...
The tall yellow hollyhocks stand, Still and straight, With their round blossoms spread open, In the quiet sunshine. And still ...
Ye flags of Piccadilly, Where I posted up and down, And wished myself so often Well away from you and ...
In the outskirts of the village On the river's winding shores Stand the Occidental plane-trees, Stand the ancient sycamores. One ...
Green is the plane-tree in the square, The other trees are brown; They droop and pine for country air; The ...
To range, deep-wrapt, along a heavenly height, O'erseeing all that man but undersees; To loiter down lone alleys of delight, ...
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