The World Of Art (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
THOU that wouldst enter here, Hold thy breath inward with an holy fear; Put off thy shoes, thou in this ...
THOU that wouldst enter here, Hold thy breath inward with an holy fear; Put off thy shoes, thou in this ...
WRITTEN FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH, JANUARY 25, 1859.A HUNDRED years ago, when George was King, The second monarch ...
POOR Love! It died a sudden death While yet 'twas filled with hope and joy; No lingering failure of the ...
THE sultry sun Burn'd hotter in December than the skies Of our far land in June; within a bower, Where ...
WHAT art thou, and what hidest thou, Thou veil of fair material sense, So thin, of baffling permanence? What art ...
IT is not the rose, though the rose is red, And as full of love as a flower can be, ...
I SAT once more within a tangl'd wood, Beside a quiet river, on whose breast A world of trees look'd ...
A CENTURY since, the Mersey flowed Unburdened to the sea; In the blue air no smoky cloud Hung over wood ...
IN a fair wood like this, where the beeches are growing, Brave Robin Hood hunted in days of old; Down ...
CARISBROOKE Church on the fifth of November Flung out the silver hid deep in her chimes; This was her burden, ...
OH cruel England! standing coldly by, While groans of human creatures rend the sky. The mother's darling and the sister's ...
QUIETLY sleeping on its little couch The cherish'd infant lay; its curly hair Twin'd lovingly about the tranquil brow, And ...
LITTLE yellow darling, Delicate and pale, Can thy gentle loveliness Brook such a wintry gale, That nestled by this rushing ...
TO lead a life divine? This is the question which, with upward strife, Earth to herself proposes, asking ever, "How ...
WHEN good King Arthur ruled this land, He dwelt at Caerleon-upon-Usk; He held it with an armed right hand, And ...
PAINTED on a little cloud, Opposite the sunset sky, Far above the high-pil'd crowd Sailing slowly softly by, I saw ...
MINE eyes are grown too dim with tears to gaze Into the future with that eager eye Which, in the ...
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