On Yarrow Braes (Alexander Anderson Poems)
The wind, the summer wind of June, Was on our cheeks as, in the heather,We lay that happy afternoon On ...
The wind, the summer wind of June, Was on our cheeks as, in the heather,We lay that happy afternoon On ...
Within the rough four-foot he lay, A touch of blood on breast and wing—His life-blood, that had sent away This ...
Like mists that trail along the hill, Dim playthings for the winds to toss,We pass away, and all is still, ...
So thanks again; in after years That down the slope of time will range,With fading hopes and many fears, And ...
The night is calm, and sweet, and still— Such nights should ever be—When the young and good of this earth ...
As of old the river is singing, The woods are thick and green,The wind is swaying the branches, That the ...
The wind blows soft, and cool, and sweet, As it blew in my infancy;And as leaves burst out when their ...
I want my child, the mother said, as through The deep sweet air of purple-breathing mornShe rose mid clouds of ...
One star alone from the blue sky Looks down upon the simple stream,With such a quiet, loving eye, That I ...
Within an unseen cage he sings, Hung high above t e rush of feet,He ruffles up his little wings, This ...
Lucy is but a child as yet, And full of mirth and glee,But still in Lucy's eye is set A ...
The sunlight fell through the shadowy trees In smiles all soft and sweet,While the incense breath of an early-breeze Stirr'd ...
A Study from DickensIn quiet moments, when my thoughts depart For their sweet home within the silent land,A maiden rises ...
The first sweet wind of the summer Is breathing upon my cheek,And swaying the heads of the grasses That throb ...
In happy grandeur swept the moon, Her whispers on the silent trees,While ever like a distant tune In murmurs came ...
All pale by the dungeon door he stands, His own sweet sky above,And he holds a book in his trembling ...
I hear the voices of singers, Whose songs stir the pulses of men;They stand on their mountains of vision, Each ...
I was alone with the Master, I was weary and sick with pain,For the fight with the passions had left ...
There are some things still in this life of ours The years weed not away,But reverse the fate of dying ...
The wings of the dear old past, Annie, Are falling over me,And again my thoughts take their flight, Annie, Over ...
I never see a castle That is gaunt and grey and grim,But my thoughts at once go backward To the ...
Where is Adams? that was the cry,"Let us question him before he die."Naught around in the night was seenSave the ...
I sat by night and read the Book,Till doubt was mingled with my look,And dimness lay before my eyes,As mists ...
Brightly shone the brow of Dante, In those years of early youth,When his Beatrice, like an angel, Rose before him ...
Laughing eyes look over the bridge And seem, as they smile, to say, Fisherman, have you caught to-dayAny fish? And ...
I lay where the winds were seeking The nooks of the streams they love;The shadows were slowly shifting With the ...
One red rose you took from my hand— O the light was sweet that summer day—One red rose from her ...
The angels look'd up into God's own eyes,As He shut the gateways of Paradise;For they heard coming up from the ...
A gladness pulses through the earth, And with a gentle soundThe rain comes down to give green birth To all ...
A day of fading light upon the sea; Of sea-birds winging to their rocky caves;And ever, with its monotone to ...
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