Hermotimus (William Edmondstoune Aytoun Poems)
I.'Wilt not lay thee down in quiet slumber?Weary dost thou seem, and ill at rest;Sleep will bring thee dreams in ...
I.'Wilt not lay thee down in quiet slumber?Weary dost thou seem, and ill at rest;Sleep will bring thee dreams in ...
It is a place whither I've often goneFor peace, and found it, secret, hushed, and cool,A beautiful recess in neighboring ...
O constellations of the early night,That sparkled brighter as the twilight died,And made the darkness glorious! I have seenYour rays ...
Roll on, sad year !—thou canst not bring Aught that can bless, or injure me,—Roll on ;—and on thy heavy wing Bear ...
IAfter long wars when comes releaseNot olive wands proclaiming peace Can import dearer shareThan stems of Herba Santa hazed In autumn's Indian ...
A QUIET, simple man was Abel Keene,He meant no harm, nor did he often mean;He kept a school of loud ...
And now, when poets are singing Their songs of olden days, And now, when the land is ringing With sweet ...
THIS is the Sabbath season of the year, When summer silence falleth on the earth- When truce hath come to ...
If beauty is not an immortal thing, And that fair casket, thy transcendent form, Never again to throbbing life shall ...
(Phillipians, iv.11) Fierce passions discompose the mind, As tempests vex the sea, But calm, content and peace we find, When, ...
The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mateless play; ...
O constellations of the early night, That sparkled brighter as the twilight died, And made the darkness glorious! I have ...
FROM pent-up, aching rivers; From that of myself, without which I were nothing; From what I am determin'd to make ...
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