A Dream (Henry Alford Poems)
The night that is now past hath been to me A time of wakeful, sleepful fancies: oft Have I been whirled aloft ...
The night that is now past hath been to me A time of wakeful, sleepful fancies: oft Have I been whirled aloft ...
ON thy carved sides, where many a vivid dyeIn easy progress leads the wandering eye,A distant nation's manners we behold,To ...
Come, madam, come, all rest my powers defy,Until I labor, I in labor lie.The foe oft-times having the foe in ...
She came and stood in the Old South Church,A wonder and a sign,With a look the old-time sibyls wore,Half-crazed and ...
THOSE , Lord, who raise their souls to thee,Not alway sink on bended knee.On earth's vast space of sea and ...
Since the earliest days I have dressed myselfIn fanciful clothes;Trying to satisfy a whispering insistence.There was so much I dared ...
Thou brown, bare-breasted, voiceless mystery,Hot sphinx of nature, cactus-crowned, what hast thou done?Unclothed and mute as when the groans of ...
You bid me hold my peace And dry my fruitless tears, Forgetting that I bear A pain beyond my years. You say that I ...
Spring should be drest in emblem quaint and shy; A troop of rosy girls escaped from bed For very wantonness of play, ...
Melpomene, the muse of tragic songs,With mournful tunes, in stole of dismal hue,Assist a silly nymph to wail her woe,And ...
In boundless mercy, the Redeemer left,The bosom of his Father, and assumedA servant's form, though he had reigned a king,In ...
ll. 684-703) Long she pled, and urged him all the day to thatdark deed, to disobey their Lord's command. Close ...
O CHANTRY of the Cherubim, Down-looking on the stream! Beneath thy boughs the day grows dim; Through windows ...
Writhing bodies clad in blackFlow past me as I stare.Like beacons on a stormy seaThe lights around them flare.Leather, velvet, ...
The cherry-snows are falling now;Down from the blossom-clouded skyOf zephyr-troubled twig and bough,In widely settling whirls they fly.The orchard earth, ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with ...
Shalt Cupid be blamed thou doth dominate Dwelling in days and nights with dignity? With this self as my only ...
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