Beechenbrook – VI (Margaret Junkin Preston Poems)
The lull of the Winter is over; and Spring Comes back, as delicious and buoyant a thing, As airy, and fairy, and ...
The lull of the Winter is over; and Spring Comes back, as delicious and buoyant a thing, As airy, and fairy, and ...
BEFORE the fair Aurora spreadHer azure mantle o'er the skies,While sleep its pleasing influence shed,On grateful mortals weary eyes.Emerg'd from ...
Argument:Tom, Tom, the piper's son,Stole a pig and away he ran.The pig was eat, and Tom was beatAnd Tom went ...
When through our bodies our two spirits burnEscaping, and no more our true eyes turnOutwards, and no more hands to ...
WHEN virtue and dignity jointly combine,Like the sun's radiant beams, more effulgent they shine;For when virtue is hid by Obscurity's ...
I had a comrade who was my adversary; not in pursuits, nor in service, norin love, but our views were ...
See the star that leads the dayRising shoots a golden ray,To make the shades of darkness goFrom heaven above and ...
AH, well I know the reason whyThey called her by that graceful name:She seems a creature born with wings,O'er which ...
With lichen and mould overgrown all aroundA time-honoured castle there looms!Its true high-born rulers now sleep below ground,Yet Trakai outlasted ...
We are but animals on a deserted island.Beasts who could not fit into Noah's ark, drivenby invisible arrows and spears.No ...
FOR ev'ry meal's refreshment we receive,Let us to God with due obeisance bow,Who deigns so lib'rally our food to give,And ...
Go! obedient to my call,Turn to profit thy young days, Wiser make betimes thy breastIn Fate's balance as it sways, Seldom is ...
DOWN sunk the sun, nor shed one golden ray, But rising mists shut in the low'ring day: The tides o'erflown ...
At times thy image to my mind returns, Aspasia. In the crowded streets it gleams Upon me, for an instant, ...
Dear husband, raise me in thine arms,-the hour is drawing nearWhen I must part with thee, and these our little ...
I. Silence! coeval with Eternity;Thou wert, ere Nature's-self began to be,'Twas one vast Nothing, all, and all slept fast in ...
We teach our sons salvation liesIn hardy toil and honesty,Then close their gate to ParadiseBy barring them from industry;We know ...
Go! obedient to my call, Turn to profit thy young days, Wiser make betimes thy breast In Fate's balance as ...
(Dante, Vita Nuova) To all those driven berserk or humanized by love this is offered, for I need help deciphering ...
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