Recollections Of “Lalla Rookh” (John Townsend Trowbridge Poems)
WHEN we were farm boys, years ago,I dare not tell how many,When, strange to say, the fairest dayWas often dark ...
WHEN we were farm boys, years ago,I dare not tell how many,When, strange to say, the fairest dayWas often dark ...
HARK! the Lambeth Guardians sing:Glory to the new-born King;Glory to the gun and swordThat will teach the German hordeIn a ...
In these prosaic daysOf politics and trade,When seldom Fancy laysHer touch on man or maid,The sounds are fled that strayedAlong ...
This toil-free moment moves me to dissent -there are no hours of freedom, since the mindis no more able, of ...
I CANNOT love thee, tho' thy soul Be one which all good thoughts control; Altho' thy eyes be starry bright, ...
There's nothing so exasperates a true Australian youth,Whatever be his rank in life, be he cultured or uncouth,As the manner ...
I'd not complain of Sister Jane, for she was good and kind,Combining with rare comeliness distinctive gifts of mind;Nay, I'll ...
Where are the stockmen bluff and bold,Who pitched their tents on the far frontier,Where wealth was not in bond or ...
You say we bushmen cannot love-Our lives are too prosaic: henceWe lose or lack that finer senseThat raises some few ...
WHETHER a ship's poetic? — Bowles would own,If here he dwelt, where Nature is prosaic,Unpicturesque, unmusical, and whereNature-reflecting Art is ...
THE poet in theory worships the moon, But how can he linger, to gaze on her light? With proof-sheets and ...
Tho' we seem to reach the turningAnd the Government is yearning To brings us swift releif, and make a cutIn ...
No. It's an impudent falsehood. Men did not Invariably think the newer way Prosaic mad, inelegant, or what not. Was ...
I feel no small reluctance in venturing to give to the public a work of the character of that indicated ...
I'd not complain of Sister Jane, for she was good and kind, Combining with rare comeliness distinctive gifts of mind; ...
Besides the Autumn poets sing A few prosaic days A little this side of the snow And that side of ...
PREFACE If---and the thing is wildly possible---the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
YE Irish lords, ye knights an' squires, Wha represent our brughs an' shires, An' doucely manage our affairs In parliament, ...
NAE heathen name shall I prefix, Frae Pindus or Parnassus; Auld Reekie dings them a' to sticks, For rhyme-inspiring lasses. ...
I What shall I do with this absurdity - O heart, O troubled heart - this caricature, Decrepit age that ...
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