The Three Tabernacles : Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard (Herbert Knowles Poems)
Methinks it is good to be here:If thou wilt, let us build—-but for whom?Nor Elias nor Moses appear;But the shadows ...
Methinks it is good to be here:If thou wilt, let us build—-but for whom?Nor Elias nor Moses appear;But the shadows ...
"Get ye up from the wrath of God's terrible day!Ungirded, unsandalled, arise and away!'T is the vintage of blood, 't ...
O'er the church roof wanders Mute and calm the moon,Blue upon the snowdrifts Sparkling silent down.By the small pond dreaming, Stands the church ...
Let others quaff the ruby wine,I'll drink from gushing springs,Nor bow again at folly's shrine,For misery it brings.I'll seek no ...
IN Thule lived a monarch,Still faithful to the grave,To whom his dying mistressA golden goblet gave.Beyond all price he deem'd ...
While thus the gentle Aziel, at the sight Of holiness, to thoughts of Heaven recalled, Stood contrite, watchful,--by far different ...
I Within a Temple of the Toes, Where twirled the passionate Wili, I saw full many a market rose, And ...
Priam's castle-walls had sunk, Troy in dust and ashes lay,And each Greek, with triumph drunk, Richly laden with his prey,Sat ...
"WHEN Nature had made all her birds, With no more cares to think on, She gave a rippling laugh, ...
I.THE great human whirlpool--'t is seething and seething: On! No time for shrieking out--scarcely for breathing: All toiling and moiling, ...
Come, gentle Dian, show thy crescent inThe sea of fading light that floods the west:Sit, like a white swan on ...
Across the field, beyond the church. You see the sign post stand.And towards the highway lean and lurch. ...
Know ye the land where the leaf of the myrtleIs bestow'd on good livers in eating sublime?Where the rage for ...
Love has no triumph and no future crown For feeble hearts, that cannot stand the test Of adverse fortunes--trials wellnigh ...
THE wide streets glimmer in gray solitude.A last belated reveller, roistering by,Jerks out a catch, a spasm as to defyNight, ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
(* This ballad is also introduced in Faust, where it is sung by Margaret.) IN Thule lived a monarch, Still ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
CARRYING bouquet, and handkerchief, and gloves, Proud of her height as when she lived, she moves With all the careless ...
It is full summer now, the heart of June; Not yet the sunburnt reapers are astir Upon the upland meadow ...
Priam's castle-walls had sunk, Troy in dust and ashes lay, And each Greek, with triumph drunk, Richly laden with his ...
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