Persephone (Jean Ingelow Poems)
Subject given—“Light and Shade.”She stepped upon Sicilian grass, Demeter’s daughter fresh and fair,A child of light, a radiant lass, And gamesome as ...
Subject given—“Light and Shade.”She stepped upon Sicilian grass, Demeter’s daughter fresh and fair,A child of light, a radiant lass, And gamesome as ...
A portly Wood-louse, full of cares,Transacted eminent affairsAlong a parapet where pearsUnripened fellAnd vines embellished the sweet airsWith muscatel.Day after ...
HOLMAN HUNT'S PICTURE OF "CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE."O CHRIST-CHILD, Everlasting, Holy One, Sufferer of all the sorrow of this world, ...
When the Laborites and Liberals are bickering, Are a-calling and a-bawling in the House,And the strangers in the gallery are ...
WHY groaning so, thou solid Earth! Tho' sprightly summer cheers?Or is thine old heart dead to mirth? Or ...
All night I heard green apples dropFrom their too loaded tree;And knew each told the worm had gainedIts transient victory.All ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
My thoughts are crabbed and sallow, My tears like vinegar, Or the bitter blinking yellow Of an acetic star. Tonight ...
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