The Death Of The Boar (John Douglas Sutherland Campbell Poems)
OSSIAN.This vale of Peace, this glen close by,Where deer and elk would often cry,Of old saw the fleet-footed Fianti boundIn ...
OSSIAN.This vale of Peace, this glen close by,Where deer and elk would often cry,Of old saw the fleet-footed Fianti boundIn ...
I."A CURSE is on this work!" Columba cried;And with their dark robes flapping in the gale,The frightened monks came hurrying ...
LITTLE Bob Bonnyface went out one dayInto his father's fields to play;Twas a morn undarkened by mist or cloud,With the ...
Ethereal, faint that music rang,As, with the bosom of the breeze,It rose and fell and murmuring sangAeolian harmonies!I turned; again ...
LOVE, we have dipped Life's humble bread Into the stars' flame-bubbling springs; We've knelt before the Moon's white face, While around us whirred ...
'Cry from the thicket my heart's bird!'The other birds woke all around;Rising with toot and howl they stirredTheir plumage, broke ...
'Twas a quaint old clock with a quaint old face, and great iron weights and chain.It stopped when it liked, and ...
Gossip right and left you're strowing, Never heeding what you do; Tho' each idle word you're sowing Friend and neighbour long may rue. When ...
Now, when our Lord was come to eighteen years,The King commanded that there should be builtThree stately houses, one of ...
Sing muse! of Saville and the direful dayWhen beauty fell, to ruthless hands a prey;And life a sacrifice to savage ...
Down beside the loathly Pitch Lake,In the stately Morichal,Sat an ancient Spanish Indian,Peering through the columns tall.Watching vainly for the ...
Could I Sing, this Would be My SongOf Tarantula, Weaving web of silken woof;House complete from floor to roof;Perfect, safe, ...
"LEAN close and set thine ear against the bark; Then tell me what faint, murmurous sounds are heard: Hath not ...
I How fresh the Dartle's little waves that day! A steely silver, underlined with blue, And flashing where the round ...
The little boy pressed his face against the window-pane and looked out at the bright sunshiny morning. The cobble-stones of ...
1930 When the grey geese heard the Fool's tread Too near to where they lay, They lifted neither voice nor ...
AN ATTACK ON BARBERCRAFT At last an end of all I hoped and feared! Muttered ...
AN ATTACK ON BARBERCRAFT At last an end of all I hoped and feared! Muttered ...
'Twas at the Seige of Matagarda, during the Peninsular War, That a Mrs Reston for courage outshone any man there ...
"O Trade! O Trade! would thou wert dead! The Time needs heart -- 'tis tired of head: We're all for ...
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