The Wish (Lady Mary Chudleigh Poem)
Would but indulgent Fortune send To me a kind, and faithful Friend, One who to Virtue's Laws is true, And ...
Would but indulgent Fortune send To me a kind, and faithful Friend, One who to Virtue's Laws is true, And ...
Revolving in their destin'd sphere, The hours begin another year As rapidly to fly; Ah! think, Maria, (e'er in grey ...
Recite the loves of Narva and Mored The priest of Chalma's triple idol said. High from the ground the youthful ...
Here lies, whom hound did ne'er pursue, Nor swiftewd greyhound follow, Whose foot ne'er tainted morning dew, Nor ear heard ...
The Spirit breathes upon the word, And brings the truth to sight; Precepts and promises afford A sanctifying light. A ...
Sometimes a light surprises The Christian while he sings; It is the Lord who rises With healing on His wings; ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
The Hunting The Bellman looked uffish, and wrinkled his brow. "If only you'd spoken before! It's excessively awkward to mention ...
All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are ...
The cuckoo, like a hawk in flight, With narrow pointed wings Whews o'er our heads-soon out of sight And as ...
How sweet and pleasant grows the way Through summer time again While Landrails call from day to day Amid the ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
The moon is full this winter night; The stars are clear, though few; And every window glistens bright, With leaves ...
THE linnet in the rocky dells, The moor-lark in the air, The bee among the heather bells That hide my ...
The linnet in the rocky dells, The moor - lark in the air, The bee among the heather - bells ...
Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day Far, through their rosy depths, dost ...
You will be walking some night in the comfortable dark of your yard and suddenly a great light will shine ...
Be still, thou unregenerate part, Disturb no more my settled heart, For I have vow'd (and so will do) Thee ...
In secret place where once I stood Close by the Banks of Lacrim flood, I heard two sisters reason on ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
My sister! my sweet sister! if a name Dearer and purer were, it should be thine; Mountains and seas divide ...
A Small Dream It was only a small dream of the Golden World, now you trot off to bed. I'll ...
I. Of the million or two, more or less, I rule and possess, One man, for some cause undefined, Was ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
I. How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark autumn-evenings come: And where, my soul, ...
Escape me? Never-- Beloved! While I am I, and you are you, So long as the world contains us both, ...
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