Alexis (Alexander Anderson Poems)
He saw through his own soul.—TennysonAlexis grew up, and through all his youthRan dreams and splendours, as a summer bowLighting ...
He saw through his own soul.—TennysonAlexis grew up, and through all his youthRan dreams and splendours, as a summer bowLighting ...
Two angels, as I grew up glad and gay From golden infancy,Were with me, walking all along the way On ...
A pure sweet life, that came upon our earth,Stay'd for a space, and then went back to heaven.I know not ...
Hurrah for this rough brown giant of ours! He stood by the side of GodWhen the stars were shot from ...
O whaur hae ye been, my bonnie, bonnie bairns, Sae lang awa' frae me?Come in, come in, for I'm weary ...
Der Schulfreund wird nie vergessen."—Jean PaulYour Edinburgh is well enough— Stone picture of the past and present;But we have in ...
Come in, gudeman, to your ain fireside, There's a cauld, cauld grup in the air,An' the win' blaws snell frae ...
A fiddler sits, wha has never been seen, On the ledgin' o' Boglebriggs;An' aye when the clock strikes the midnicht ...
"Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, ...
Once again within the city, 'mid its multitudinous din, Stand I, while, as sinks a leaf when left by the ...
Frae the schulehoose that sat at the heid o' the green,To the fit o' the toon where the smiddy was ...
By the bend of the stream stood the house of old Ledgie Cooper, a worthy man, who about a hundred ...
Into all the onward current and this iron time that feels Its own way with din and clamour through this ...
Aflush from the far land of song he came To us;His harp was strung with fiery threads of flame, ...
On fire-horses and wind-horses we career.—CarlyleHurrah! for the mighty engine, As he bounds along his track:Hurrah, for the life that ...
Each in his narrow cell forever laid,The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.—Gray's ElegyThe mist lies on Glen Aymer hill, ...
In the shake and rush of the engine, In the full, deep breath of his chest,In the swift, clear clank ...
Let me lie upon the heather Where the heath fowl have abode,In my hand the open Bible, On my lip ...
I was a shepherd in the Tempean vale, I heard Apollo play,And send sweet music, like a lover's tale, Throughout ...
Come, fling for a moment, my fellows, The pick and shovel aside,And rise from the moil of our ten hours' ...
Move upward, working out the brute, And let the ape and tiger die. —TennysonAy, in heaven's name, let us move ...
Nicht darf ich dir zu gleichen mich vermessen.— GoetheI know not how to sing a song to-day—Thou in the spirit, ...
England, amid thy great in this great time One man, white-haired, with misty, flashing eyesLooms from the rest, in his ...
Who are the heroes we hail to-day,And circle their brows with wreaths of bay?Is it the warrior back again,To be ...
So you knew Dalley that used to driveThat spanking old engine—fifty-five;Knew him? why, Dalley was my mate,He died beside me ...
Rachel, soft and shy and blushing, pass'd into the angel wife, Tears of joy within the rapture of her sweetly-drooping ...
Bright the firelight touch'd his portrait hanging on our humble wall, But a sweeter light was in us, with a ...
That was Nottman waving at me,But the steam fell down, so you could not see;He is out to-day with the ...
Grey tree within the churchyard old, Why stir thy leaves to-night?Why moan thy branches in the cold And shake as ...
Here in the city as I sit, The twilight filling all the room,I dream, and as my fancies flit, They ...
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