A Dialogue At Fiesole (Alfred Austin Poems)
HE.Halt here awhile. That mossy-cushioned seatIs for your queenliness a natural throne;As I am fitly couched on this low sward,Here ...
HE.Halt here awhile. That mossy-cushioned seatIs for your queenliness a natural throne;As I am fitly couched on this low sward,Here ...
All day they loitered by the resting ships,Telling their beauties over, taking stock;At night the verdict left my messmate's lips,"The ...
They left their home of summer easeBeneath the lowland's sheltering trees,To seek, by ways unknown to all,The promise of the ...
From that warm height and pure, The peak undreamed of out of heavy air Rising to heaven more strange and rare;From that ...
The snow has ceased its fluttering flight,The wind sunk to a whisper light,An ominous stillness fills the night,A pause - ...
Hope is the shadowy essence of a wish, A fond desire which floats before our eyes;With lurid aberration, feverish,-- We ...
From the bright stars, or from the viewless air,Or from some world unreached by human thought,Spirit, sweet spirit! if thy ...
(_To A. H. R._) Who stood upon that schooner's driven deck Last night as reefed and shuddering she hove Into ...
Night closes round me, and wild threatening forms Clasp me with icy arms and chain me down, And bind upon ...
Thou dost not dwell in this dark world of ours, Where sorrow, want, and crime, and misery reign;Where famine stalks; ...
The trumpets of the four winds of the world From the ends of the earth blow battle; the night heaves, ...
ALL day they loitered by the resting ships, Telling their beauties over, taking stock; At night the verdict left my ...
The bird sits spelled upon the lithe brown wrist Of yonder turbaned fowler, who had lamed No feather limb, but ...
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