Twenty-Third (John Keble Poems)
Red o'er the forest peers the setting sun, The line of yellow light dies fast awayThat crowned the eastern copse: and ...
Red o'er the forest peers the setting sun, The line of yellow light dies fast awayThat crowned the eastern copse: and ...
Me so oft my fancy drewHere and there, that I ne'er knewWhere to place desire beforeSo that range it might ...
INTRA MUROSTHE sunbeams, lost for half a year,Slant through my pane their morning rays;For dry northwesters cold and clear,The east ...
Flow on for ever, in thy glorious robeOf terror and of beauty. Yea, flow onUnfathom'd and resistless. God hath setHis ...
Soldier and statesman, rarest unison;High-poised example of great duties doneSimply as breathing, a world's honors wornAs life's indifferent gifts to ...
Farewell, my best-beloved; whose heavenly mindGenius with virtue, strength with softness join'd;Devotion, undebased by pride or art,With meek simplicity, and ...
Some truths there be are better left unsaid;Much is there that we may not speak unblamed.On words, as wings, how ...
Vineleaf and rose I would my chaplet make:I would my word were wine for all men's sake.Pure from the pressing ...
THE FRANK COURTSHIP.Grave Jonas Kindred, Sybil Kindred's sire,Was six feet high, and look'd six inches higher;Erect, morose, determined, solemn, slow,Who ...
THE STRUGGLES OF CONSCIENCE.A serious Toyman in the city dwelt,Who much concern for his religion felt;Reading, he changed his tenets, ...
She loves with love that cannot tire: And if, ah, woe! she loves alone, Through passionate duty ...
Let no man ask thee of anything Not yearborn between Spring and Spring. More of all worlds than he can ...
Ye who around this venerated bierIn pious anguish pour the tender tear,Mourn not!-'Tis Virtue's triumph, Nature's doom,When honoured Age, slow ...
Eros, from rest in isles far-famed,With rising Anthesterion rose,And all Hellenic heights acclaimed Eros.The sea one pearl, the shore ...
Dear faithful object of my tender care,Whom but my partial eyes none fancy fair;May I unblamed display thy social mirth,Thy ...
They bear no laurels on their sunless brows,Nor aught within their pale hands as they go;They look as men accustomed ...
Then one of the judges of the city stood forth and said, "Speak to us of Crime and Punishment." And ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
Never any more, While I live, Need I hope to see his face As before. Once his love grown chill, ...
Eros, from rest in isles far-famed, With rising Anthesterion rose, And all Hellenic heights acclaimed Eros. The sea one pearl, ...
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
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