Everyday Characters I – The Vicar (Winthrop Mackworth Praed Poems)
Some years ago, ere time and tasteHad turned our parish topsy-turvy,When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste,And roads as little known ...
Some years ago, ere time and tasteHad turned our parish topsy-turvy,When Darnel Park was Darnel Waste,And roads as little known ...
(LES SOUVENIRS DU PEUPLE) Ay, many a day the straw-thatched cot Shall echo with his glory! The humblest shed, these fifty years, Shall know ...
What happier haunt could the gods allotFor loftiest musing to sage or bard?-Yet I would that this upper verandah did ...
Oh, would the fairies to her whisper The truths which they to him impart,Teach her a beautiful hereafter, A Heaven to bless ...
I: PalacesA Wall of sod, a roof of thatch,And naked turf the floor;And winds, unchallenged and unbarred,Go in and out ...
SUMMER passed by, and Autumn; Winter came With grey cold days and black unpitying nights, And many children gathered round ...
I Last night I dreamed this dream: That I was dead; And as I slept, forgot of man ...
Listen to the Poet's story Of an ancient bell,Freighted with its wreaths of glory, With its fate as well:On Alhambra's ...
ELLA kept anxious vigil by the bed: How strange it is to watch through creeping hours A face which was ...
A BALLAD OF SORROW "Jeanne Bras! Jeanne Bras! arise and let me in; Jeanne Bras! Jeanne Bras! will you awake?" ...
"THEY had brought in such sheafs of hair, And flung them all about us there In the loud noonday's heat ...
Three Souls there were that reached the Heavenly Gate,And gained permission of the Guard to wait.Barred from the bliss of ...
_There are no ghosts in America._There are no ghosts, you say, To haunt her blaze of light;No shadows in her ...
One evening I found lodging in a village where A press-gang stole by night to seize my aging host,Who, hearing ...
The strength of twice three thousand horse That seeks the single goal; The line that holds the rending course, The ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
"Aug." 10, 1911. Full moon to-night; and six and twenty years Since my full moon first broke from angel spheres! ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
The lone man gazed and gazed upon his gold, His sweat, his blood, the wage of weary days; But now ...
All night the dreadless Angel, unpursued, Through Heaven's wide champain held his way; till Morn, Waked by the circling Hours, ...
I. She, who so long has lain Stone-stiff with folded wings, Within my heart again The brown bird wakes and ...
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