To An English Nightingale (Maurice Thompson Poems)
Hear!Hear!Oh, will you hear?Reed-notes clear,(Fluted in flowery, May-drowsed solitudes,Filtered through sun-steeped woods)A challenge hurledTo all the singing world!I, the mocking ...
Hear!Hear!Oh, will you hear?Reed-notes clear,(Fluted in flowery, May-drowsed solitudes,Filtered through sun-steeped woods)A challenge hurledTo all the singing world!I, the mocking ...
(After Ronsard)YE caverns, and ye rillsThat from the beetling hillsDown every rocky wallGlide, gleam, and fall;Ye woods and streams around,Where ...
Seven dog-days we let pass Naming Queens in Glenmacnass, All the rare and royal names Wormy sheepskin yet retains, Etain, Helen, Maeve, and Fand, Golden ...
In Bourgueil Gardens more than one of yoreEngraved loved names on bark with heavy stroke,And many a heart 'neath Louvre's ...
When you are very old, at eveningYou'll sit and spin beside the fire, and say,Humming my songs, 'Ah well, ah ...
Ronsard, if your good, gentle-natured heartDeceives you for some sustenance at court,Which you received when young from a king's handIn ...
I He whom we anatomized 'whose words we gathered as pleasant flowers and thought on his wit and how neatly ...
(PETER RONSARD _loquitur_.) ``Heigho!'' yawned one day King Francis, ``Distance all value enhances! ``When a man's busy, why, leisure ``Strikes ...
(Imitated from Ronsard) Dear Craoibhin Aoibhin, look into our case. When we are high and airy hundreds say That if ...
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