At A Bridal (Thomas Hardy Poem)
WHEN you paced forth, to wait maternity, A dream of other offspring held my mind, Compounded of us twain as ...
WHEN you paced forth, to wait maternity, A dream of other offspring held my mind, Compounded of us twain as ...
Since Reverend Doctors now declare That clerks and people must prepare To doubt if Adam ever were; To hold the ...
There are two phrases, you must know, So potent (yet so small) That wheresoe'er a man may go He needs ...
Through what transports of Patience I reached the stolid Bliss To breathe my Blank without thee Attest me this and ...
They talk as slow as Legends grow No mushroom is their mind But foliage of sterility Too stolid for the ...
The smouldering embers blush -- Oh Hearts within the Coal Hast thou survived so many years? The smouldering embers smile ...
Tell as a Marksman -- were forgotten Tell -- this Day endures Ruddy as that coeval Apple The Tradition bears ...
Struck, was I, not yet by Lightning -- Lightning -- lets away Power to perceive His Process With Vitality. Maimed ...
She laid her docile Crescent down And this confiding Stone Still states to Dates that have forgot The News that ...
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers -- Untouched my Morning And untouched by Noon -- Sleep the meek members of the ...
Resurgent greens and stronger hues combined within the colours in-between will spring again, the reddish brown has nearly gone and ...
Under what withering leprous light The very grass as hair is grey, Grass in the cracks of the paven courts ...
Lo! from quiet skies In through the window my Lord the Sun! And my eyes Were dazzled and drunk with ...
Karshish, the picker-up of learning's crumbs, The not-incurious in God's handiwork (This man's-flesh he hath admirably made, Blown like a ...
Is it not strange? A year ago to-day, With scarce a thought beyond the hum-drum round, I did my decent ...
Oh the airman's game is a showman's game, for we all of us watch him go With his roaring soaring ...
Wargeilah town is very small, There's no cathedral nor a club, In fact the township, all in all, Is just ...
BOWED by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages ...
Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie, I'm told he went to the High School in Dundee, For to learn to read ...
To-day the woods are trembling through and through With shimmering forms, that flash before my view, Then melt in green ...
The storm hath blown thee a lover, sweet, And laid him kneeling at thy feet. But, -- guerdon rich for ...
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