The Great Beech (Norman Rowland Gale Poems)
With heart disposed to memory, let me standNear this monarch and this minstrel of the land,Now that Dian leans so ...
With heart disposed to memory, let me standNear this monarch and this minstrel of the land,Now that Dian leans so ...
There was a sound of revelry by night,And Belgium's capital had gathered thenHer beauty and her chivalry, and brightThe lamps ...
Inhabitants of Liverpool, List to the urgent call,Which summons you in crowds to-day, Within St. George's Hall.There earnest Women are convened, In purpose ...
Is there, in bowers of endless spring, One known from all the seraph band By softer voice, by smile and wing More exquisitely ...
What shall I do for thee? Thou hast my prayers,Ceaseless as stars around the great white throne;No passing angel but ...
At the window I lean,And my heart is a mist.Tis a whispering scene,Where all was whist!Whist and still was the ...
Ruth was a laughing-eyed prattler, Thoughtless, and happy, and free;She planted a seed in the garden, And said: "It will grow to ...
Over the garden the moon's tide tumbles;Shrubs are shaken by gusts and tremblings;Pathways ribbon with sudden dissemblingsTowards the threshold where ...
Here in this moonlit room, I watch you slipOne shoulder from your dress and turn to me;A polished statue, flushing ...
Throughout the city, and the lands around, Soon ran the rumour that, from Israel's God, Moses a word had brought ...
A MysteryHis face was sad; some shadow must have hungAbove his soul; its folds, now falling dark,Now almost bright; but ...
WITH our late Vicar, and his age the same,His clerk, hight Jachin, to his office came;The like slow speech was ...
'TIS well--that Man to all the varying statesOf good and ill his mind accommodates;He not alone progressive grief sustains,But soon ...
GERTRUDE.IN clouds drew on the evening's close, Which cross the west in ranges stood, As pensive GERTRUDE sought the wood, ...
I stood on the brow of the hill; to the West The sunset glories were tenderly prest,And out of the ...
Thou giv'st me flowers, thou giv'st me songs; bring backThe love that I have lost!WHAT wak'st thou, Spring? sweet voices ...
Thy heart is in the upper world, where fleet the chamois bounds;Thy heart is where the mountain-fir shakes to the ...
But now the Dream has come again, the world is as of old.Once more I feel about my breast the ...
They bade me to my spinningBecause I was a maid,But down into the battleI marshalled unafraid.Brightly against the sunbeamsI shook ...
(with apologies to Frederic Taber Cooper) I well recall (and who does not) The circus bill-board hippopotamus, whose wide distended ...
MUSIC doth uplift me like a sea Towards my planet pale, Then through dark fogs or heaven's infinity I lift ...
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