The Two Blackbirds (George Meredith Poems)
A blackbird in a wicker cage, That hung and swung 'mid fruits and flowers, Had learnt the song-charm, to assuage ...
A blackbird in a wicker cage, That hung and swung 'mid fruits and flowers, Had learnt the song-charm, to assuage ...
As busy Aurelia, 'twixt work and 'twixt play, Was labouring industriously hardTo cull the vile weeds from the flowerets away, ...
BRING a poet, whose writings our book-shelves adorn,At Stratford-on-Avon, in Warwickshire, born,Let the name of a regicide also be heard,Who ...
When the upper robe is green, With a yellow lining seen, There we have a certain token, Right is wronged ...
O my fellow sufferers, songs of my youth,A lot of asses praise you because you are 'virile',We, you, I! We ...
QUEEN of the silver bow!--by thy pale beam,Alone and pensive, I delight to stray,And watch thy shadow trembling in the ...
Queen of the silver bow, by thy pale beamAlone and pensive I delight to stray,And watch thy shadow trembling in ...
BURIED IN FAHAN CHURCHYARDAlone with Christ in this sequester'd placeThy sweet soul learn'd its quietude of grace;On sufferers waiting in ...
About suffering, about adoration, the old masters Disagree. When someone suffers, no one else eats Or walks or opens the ...
(i) i believed in flower-power (the triumph of the meek) the thought that what a wind could bend was not ...
the great thing about the tall white daisy is that it knows how to laugh at itself some flowers for ...
The gold-hoarder walked in his palace park and with him walked his troubles. And over his head hovered worries as ...
Night fell over North Lebanon and snow was covering the villages surrounded by the Kadeesha Valley, giving the fields and ...
Matron! the children of whose love, Each to his grave, in youth have passed, And now the mould is heaped ...
Through Alpine meadows soft-suffused With rain, where thick the crocus blows, Past the dark forges long disused, The mule-track from ...
v.14,17ff C. M. Mercy to sufferers; or, God hearing prayer. Let every tongue thy goodness speak, Thou sovereign Lord of ...
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
Their strength had fed on this when Death's white arms Came sleeved in vapors and miasmal dew, Curling across the ...
Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, ...
'Twas in the year of 1887, which many people will long remember, The burning of the Theatre at Exeter on ...
As the night was beginning to close in one rough September day In the year of 1838, a steamer passed ...
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