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 ...
PEACE on the hush'd earth fell at eventide, As dew from heaven upon the thirsty grass; No sound unmusical broke ...
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 ...
POOR Love! It died a sudden death While yet 'twas filled with hope and joy; No lingering failure of the ...
TIME rolls, and month by month The upwelling blood of Nature fills her veins, And the bright wooing sun From ...
CHRISTMAS is over, and Christmas cheer;-- What shall we wish you, O reader dear? What do you want for your ...
WE walk in mysteries howsoe'er we tread, And none less awful that we see them not, Or that our solemn ...
WITH a sweet murmur dropping waters play, Breaking, the stillness of this summer's day, And all things beautiful and light ...
(OBERON loquitur.)ALAS! they have stolen my Fairy Princess, And where they have hidden her I cannot guess. But my life ...
IT is not the rose, though the rose is red, And as full of love as a flower can be, ...
IN a fair wood like this, where the beeches are growing, Brave Robin Hood hunted in days of old; Down ...
WE read in our childhood of rings which were wrought By magical fires in the heart of the hills; Which ...
QUIETLY sleeping on its little couch The cherish'd infant lay; its curly hair Twin'd lovingly about the tranquil brow, And ...
TO lead a life divine? This is the question which, with upward strife, Earth to herself proposes, asking ever, "How ...
WHEN trembling angels stand aloof, Watching the fight with folded wings, Forbid or succour or reproof, And every hasting second ...
I WAS a child when first I read your books, And lov'd you dearly, so far as I could see ...
WAVES which discourse, in a melodious whisper, Mutual knowledge with the marshall'd clouds,-- Murmur of June, which riseth up with ...
WHAT distance parteth thee and me! It is not space, it is not time-- Death hath not put between our ...
IS there anything-- Nightingales that sing-- Violets in the spring-- As at first? Sun and moon arise, But our accustomed ...
AS a ripple on the water, As the wind across the grass, As the shadows of a vapour, As 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 ...
PAINTED on a little cloud, Opposite the sunset sky, Far above the high-pil'd crowd Sailing slowly softly by, I saw ...
I AM not lonely, O my Love, Save in so far I have not thee, Without whose smile the changeful ...
NO word of pity, if the storm should beat, Need any voice bestow which calls you dear; You will not ...
CLAMBERING up the rocky bank, Briers and honeysuckles fling Greenest branches unto air Fragrant in the early spring: Streams let ...
DEEP heart and earnest eyes Seeking for rest, Finding a weight that lies Cold on thy breast, Musing on nearest ...
OH! thoughts of Genius, cloth'd in hues divine, And sanctifying this time-honour'd spot,-- Oh! sacrifices on the holy shrine Of ...
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