A Peaceful Village on the Banks of the Leven – A Summer Landscape (Michael Bruce Poems)
Fair from his hand behold the village rise,In rural pride, 'mong intermingled trees!Above whose aged tops the joyful swains,At even-tide, ...
Fair from his hand behold the village rise,In rural pride, 'mong intermingled trees!Above whose aged tops the joyful swains,At even-tide, ...
My head is aching, and I wish That I could feel tonight One well-remembered, tender touch That used to comfort me so much, And ...
Was it so long? It seems so brief a whileSince this still hour between the day and darkWas lightened by ...
Just from the sentry's tramp (I must take it again at ten),I have laid my musket down, And seized instead my pen;For, ...
I thought that a man went home last nightFrom the trench where the tired men lie,And walked through the streets ...
A tear that trembles for a little whileUpon the trembling eyelid, till the worldWavers within its circle like a dream,Holds ...
Gazing upon the toiling seas,In gloomy rows the silent captives sate;And as the ship rode off before the breeze,They murmured ...
WHEN on the West broke light from out the East, Then from the splendour and the shame of ...
ACT IV.SCENE I. The City Hall at Nordhausen. Deputies and Burghers assembling. To the right, at a table near the ...
There was a sudden stir, Ages ago, on the Ӕgean Sea. With a loud cry, as of great agony, The ...
Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more! Thou hast mocked me, starved me, beat my body sore! ...
We are all here,Father, mother,Sister, brother,All who hold each other dear.Each chair is filled, we are all at home!Tonight let ...
"WARM, wild, rainy wind, blowing fitfully, Stirring dreamy breakers on the slumberous May sea, What shall fail to answer thee? ...
THE tenderness and sanctity of HomePervade the haunts of men from pole to pole;While cottage, castle, and imperial domeAlike demand ...
In my father's house! The wordsBring sweet cadence to my ears.Wandering thoughts, like homing birds,Fly all swiftly down the years,To ...
"The bright sea washed beneath her feet, As it had done of yore, The well-remembered odor sweet Came ...
In a dear land, in a dim land,By well-remembered streams,Bare trees in moorland hollows standWhere a lost sunset gleams;There joy ...
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis, Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. Ovid, Fastorum, Lib. vi. "O C?sar, we who are ...
Lays of Mystery, Imagination, and Humor Number 1 I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls, And each damp thing that ...
"Curse thee, Life, I will live with thee no more! Thou hast mocked me, starved me, beat my body sore! ...
ALL day they loitered by the resting ships, Telling their beauties over, taking stock; At night the verdict left my ...
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