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 ...
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 ...
[How the King's Daughter, having married me, a peasant, for love, heareth of the death of her only brother, and ...
I LIV'D in an old house, you ne'er saw one older, The wind whistled loud when the winter set in; ...
TIME rolls, and month by month The upwelling blood of Nature fills her veins, And the bright wooing sun From ...
THE sultry sun Burn'd hotter in December than the skies Of our far land in June; within a bower, Where ...
'TIS dark, and I fancy A ring at the bell,-- My heart leapeth up With a throb and a swell; ...
THEY came across the distant hills With trumpet, pipe, and drum; And all the air with welcome fills, Which deepens ...
WHAT is it? a speck in the distance, A rumour that flies in the air, Too faint to be met ...
I WAS a painter; if I lov'd Her glorious face too much, It was that thought had carv'd its lines,-- ...
WHEN sitting softly, hand in hand, Twilight unbars the gates of speech, And whispered words sink deeplier down Than daylight ...
WHO holds us heart to heart it mattereth not, If Thou, who holdest all within thy hand, Wilt say, "Well ...
THROUGH these closecut alleys Paced Gabrielle; At her side, in royal pride, Henri bon et bel. Ah! my love across ...
NO word of pity, if the storm should beat, Need any voice bestow which calls you dear; You will not ...
A SMILE and a tear were disputing one day On their different merits and skill; It grieves me to state ...
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