Under The Olives (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
SEATED in a Moorish garden On the Sahel of Algiers, Wandering breezes brought the burden Of its history in past ...
SEATED in a Moorish garden On the Sahel of Algiers, Wandering breezes brought the burden Of its history in past ...
THOU that wouldst enter here, Hold thy breath inward with an holy fear; Put off thy shoes, thou in this ...
TIS April! 'Tis a holyday! and they shut close yester-even The golden gates of Sydenham with the clang of iron ...
WRITTEN FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH, JANUARY 25, 1859.A HUNDRED years ago, when George was King, The second monarch ...
COME out, said Leonard, bursting through my door, His black curls tangled like a fretting sea,-- "Come out, nor waste ...
BEHOLD, O Lord! these unhewn stones Piled rudely for thy mighty towers, And I, condemned to work alone, Possessor of ...
[How the King's Daughter, having married me, a peasant, for love, heareth of the death of her only brother, and ...
CHRISTMAS is over, and Christmas cheer;-- What shall we wish you, O reader dear? What do you want for your ...
CHRISTMAS comes, Christmas comes, Blessing wheresoe'er he roams, And he calls the little children Cluster'd in a thousand homes. Stand ...
WHAT art thou, and what hidest thou, Thou veil of fair material sense, So thin, of baffling permanence? What art ...
I SAID last year, Old Christmas cometh with an open hand, Bright holly wreath'd about his temples bland, Icicles twisted ...
CARISBROOKE Church on the fifth of November Flung out the silver hid deep in her chimes; This was her burden, ...
QUIETLY sleeping on its little couch The cherish'd infant lay; its curly hair Twin'd lovingly about the tranquil brow, And ...
WHEN trembling angels stand aloof, Watching the fight with folded wings, Forbid or succour or reproof, And every hasting second ...
THE very roses, thick with bloom, Are golden in the golden light; What sanctifies that belt of gloom? What makes ...
OF all the seven which Rome doth boast, (Fair hills and nobly crowned!) I love the Coelian Hill the most, ...
OF temples built by mortal hands, Give honour to the Lateran first; 'Twas here the hope of many lands-- The ...
ST. LAURENCE is a church beside the sea, Kissed by the southern wind perpetually. Those who may care to make ...
WHO holds us heart to heart it mattereth not, If Thou, who holdest all within thy hand, Wilt say, "Well ...
TIME, rushing past me with the noise of wings, Woke up my sleeping spirit, and I wept At his receding ...
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