Festus – VIII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Comes on a quarrel stormy and stern, if brief,'Tween the two foe friends, this demanding whatCannot be;--who immunity shall secure'Gainst ...
Comes on a quarrel stormy and stern, if brief,'Tween the two foe friends, this demanding whatCannot be;--who immunity shall secure'Gainst ...
Stern Winter! stormy, sullen, cold, and dun,Thou joyless outcast from the genial sun,Thou gloomiest offspring of the rolling year,With front ...
BEYOND the sunset, and the amber seaTo the lone depths of Ether, cold and bare,Thy influence, soul of all tranquillity,Hallows ...
Out beyond Aldgate is a road,And a broad,Clean, noble thing it runs,For the sun'sAnd wind's and man's delight,And the high ...
How habit grows no one e'er knows, And yet he is a giant That has a will and subtle skill That never yet ...
NO, let it stay. It speaks but truth:My Autumn's day is dawning.The dream is past; sweet dream of youth.Hair, I ...
I. Yonder, with eyes that tears, not distance, dim, With ears the wide world's thickness cannot daunt, We see tumultuous miseries that haunt The ...
PLACE this bunch of mignonetteIn her cold, dead hand;When the golden sun is set,Where the poplars stand,Bury her from sun ...
Let the proud White Man boast his flocks,And fields of foodful grain;My home is 'mid the mountain rocks,The Desert my ...
STANZAS ON THE TAKING OF QUEBEC, AND DEATH OFGENERAL WOLFEAMIDST the clamour of exulting joys,Which triumph forces from the patriot ...
While the vain world around us buys and sells, And falls before its pomp and vanity, Each day, O Lord, in humble ...
AMIDST the clamour of exulting joys,Which triumph forces from the patriot heart,Grief dares to mingle her soul-piercing voice,And quells the ...
I.SHE came to England from the island clime Which lies beyond the far Atlantic wave; She died in early youth--before ...
And wilt thou, faithless one, then, leave me, With all thy magic phantasy,—With all the thoughts that joy or grieve ...
I was content, O Sea, to be free for a space from striving, Content as the brown weed is, ...
'Tis a wicked world we live in;Wrong in reason, wrong in rhyme;But no matter: we'll not give inWhile we still ...
Why can't I keep out of harm's way? Am I so preoccupied, simultaneously looking ahead, concurrently looking behind; concerned to ...
1 Ye Mariners of England 2 That guard our native seas, 3 Whose flag has braved, a thousand years, 4 ...
Apollo's wrath to man the dreadful spring Of ills innum'rous, tuneful goddess, sing! Thou who did'st first th' ideal pencil ...
And wilt thou, faithless one, then, leave me, With all thy magic phantasy,-- With all the thoughts that joy or ...
Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, ...
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