A Scene and a birth (Kendrick Smithyman Poems)
Pump the old harmonium in a back room.The kettle's on for tea at four o'clock.A man's to get born, who'll ...
Pump the old harmonium in a back room.The kettle's on for tea at four o'clock.A man's to get born, who'll ...
Let no presuming impious railer taxCreative wisdom, as if aught was form'dIn vain, or not for admirable ends.Shall little haughty ...
When from my desk in yonder crowded fane,Thy vacant pew my wandering eyes survey,Seeking unconsciously the far away,My heart shrinks ...
DISPOSED to wed, e'en while you hasten, stay;There's great advantage in a small delay:Thus Ovid sang, and much the wise ...
WHAT is a Church?--Let Truth and Reason speak,They would reply, "The faithful, pure, and meek;From Christian folds, the one selected ...
ARABELLA.Of a fair town where Doctor Rack was guide,His only daughter was the boast and pride -Wise Arabella, yet not ...
WE had a sprightly nymph--in every townAre some such sprights, who wander up and down;She had her useful arts, and ...
Patience, when heathen darkness veil'd the world,Was that high spirit of unbending pride,That dar'd to err, but was asham'd to ...
"HOW sadly, sweet seraph, I mourn that I never, I ne'er was so happy thee living to know! How sadly ...
"Oh! I shall ne'er forget thee, wretched wight! While memory holds forget thee shall I never; Thy conscious form, that ...
The air is brisk, and the green lowland ringsWith tinkling waterfalls and bubbling springs,The clouds glance fleetly by, and, as ...
Methinks this World is oddly made, And ev'ry thing's amiss, A dull presuming Atheist said, As stretch'd he lay beneath ...
I started Early - Took my Dog -And visited the Sea -The Mermaids in the BasementCame out to look at ...
I started early, took my dog,And visited the sea;The mermaids in the basementCame out to look at me. And frigates ...
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
Methinks this World is oddly made, And ev'ry thing's amiss, A dull presuming Atheist said, As stretch'd he lay beneath ...
The Stars are old, that stood for me -- The West a little worn -- Yet newer glows the only ...
Experience is the Angled Road Preferred against the Mind By -- Paradox -- the Mind itself -- Presuming it to ...
I started Early -- Took my Dog -- And visited the Sea -- The Mermaids in the Basement Came out ...
Whate'er we leave to God, God does, And blesses us; The work we choose should be our own, God leaves ...
"Gawaine, Gawaine, what look ye for to see, So far beyond the faint edge of the world? D'ye look to ...
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