The Fall of Needwood (Francis Noel Clarke Mundy Poems)
Ah, Needwood! I, whose early voiceTaught thy shrill echoes to rejoice;I, who first pour'd the sylvan songThy glades, thy banks, ...
Ah, Needwood! I, whose early voiceTaught thy shrill echoes to rejoice;I, who first pour'd the sylvan songThy glades, thy banks, ...
BOOK IV.So did that youth choose Duty before Love:And so determination drove awayThe doubts that held him with ungainly checkWavering—for ...
THE BRIDE'S FAREWELL.Osmotar, the bride-instructor,Gives the wedding-guests this counsel,Speaks these measures to the bridegroom:"Ilmarinen, artist-brother,Best of all my hero-brothers,Of my ...
I.IN the beautiful Castleton Island a mansion of lordly style,Embowered in gardens and lawns, looks over the glimmering bay.In the ...
The night had sunk along the city, It was a bleak and cheerless hour;The wild-winds sung their solemn ditty ...
She loves with love that cannot tire: And if, ah, woe! she loves alone, Through passionate duty ...
THE long-drawn bray of the assIn the Sicilian twilight--_All mares are dead!All mares are dead!Oh-h!Oh-h-h!Oh-h-h-h-h--h!!I can't bear it, I can't ...
By Avignon's dismantled walls, Where cloudless mid—March sunshine falls, Rhone, through broad belts of green, Flecked with the light of ...
Within a house of public entertainment There sat an ebon slave close at the foot Of a heavy chair topping ...
Come now, ye sighing washers all, Join in my doleful lay,Mourn for the times none can recall, ...
Life is a count of losses,Every year; For the weak are heavier crosses, Every year; Lost Springs with sobs replying ...
SUFFER the little ones to come to Me,"Forbid them not," the Saviour said: and we,Remembering His words, sure comfort takeThat ...
RUINS! Alas we have been wont to say,With half regretful tone, that in the graceAnd glory of our country's youthful ...
WHAT am I glad will stay when I have passed From this dear valley of the world, and stand On ...
COME to the grave--the silent grave! and dream Of a light, happy voice--so full of joy, That those who heard ...
Four springtimes lost: and in the fifth we stand, here in this quiet hour of glory, still, while o'er the ...
I am not hypercritical on points of punctuation; A misplaced comma now and then is surely not a sin;I overlook ...
A fleet set sail upon a summer sea: 'Tis now so long ago, I look no ...
Man, I suck me tooth when I hear How dem croptime fiddlers lie, And de wailing, kiss-me-arse flutes That bring ...
"Remember, you loved me, when we were young, one day" The words of the song in Tauber's mellifluous tenor Haunt ...
Here, where the world is quiet; Here, where all trouble seems Dead winds' and spent waves' riot In doubtful dreams ...
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