The Manuscript of Saint Alexius (Augusta Davies Webster Poems)
There came a child into the solemn hall where great Pope Innocent sat throned and heard angry disputings on Free-Will ...
There came a child into the solemn hall where great Pope Innocent sat throned and heard angry disputings on Free-Will ...
ACT V.SCENE I. A Room in Susskind's House. LIEBHAID, CLAIRE, REUBEN.LIEBHAID.The air hangs sultry as in mid-July.Look forth, Claire; moves ...
Our king he kept a false stewarde,Sir Aldingar they him call;A falser steward than he was one,Servde not in bower ...
ACT V.SCENE I. A Room in DON TOMMASO'S House. ANNICCA discovered, attired in mourning. Enter DON TOMMASO.DON TOMMASO.If he still ...
Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.I loved light ever, light in eye and brain-No tapers mirrored in ...
THEY slewed her in to dump her load, And cleaned her aft and fore; They turned her out to take ...
The shore-boat lies in the morning light, By the good ship ready for sailing;The skies are clear, and the dawn ...
A Ballad Father John in the green lane went And he drew his robe full tight, "I would," quoth he, ...
Queene Elianor was a sicke woman,And afraid that she should dye;Then she sent for two fryars of France,To speke with ...
(_A ballad for God_) _A. D._ 909 Three kings with naught of a care To a hunting went; Three ...
As I between the dusk and dark Walked down by Hampton Towers, I strayed upon the haunted path In the ...
I AM mine own priest, and I shrive myself Of all my wasted yesterdays. Though sin And sloth and foolishness, ...
"THOU hast evil And given place to the devil; Yet so cunningly thou concealest The thing which thou feelest, That ...
HAVE pity, Lord! Let me not die alone! Though once I dared my fellow-souls to shrive, I am unclean; with ...
I. Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye! They could not in the self-same mansion ...
Some say the spot is banned; that the pillar Cross-and-Hand Attests to a deed of hell; But of else than ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme- I will not madly deem that power ...
From cold Norse caves or buccaneer Southern seas Oft come repenting tempests here to die; Bewailing old-time wrecks and robberies, ...
"O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head: We're all for ...
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