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 ...
COME out, said Leonard, bursting through my door, His black curls tangled like a fretting sea,-- "Come out, nor waste ...
PEACE on the hush'd earth fell at eventide, As dew from heaven upon the thirsty grass; No sound unmusical broke ...
AMONG the crowd, one, with a gayer face Than most, came swaggering; the Sabine Bard, The Roman Priest of Song, ...
I SAID last year, Old Christmas cometh with an open hand, Bright holly wreath'd about his temples bland, Icicles twisted ...
POOR Love! It died a sudden death While yet 'twas filled with hope and joy; No lingering failure of the ...
CHRISTMAS comes, Christmas comes, Blessing wheresoe'er he roams, And he calls the little children Cluster'd in a thousand homes. Stand ...
(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, ...
GOOD bye, Old Year! And with thee take Thanks for the gifts to every land Thou broughtest in thy bounteous ...
IN a fair wood like this, where the beeches are growing, Brave Robin Hood hunted in days of old; Down ...
DEEM not thy labours or thy sufferings hard; The weary traveller makes a tuneless bard. Wouldst thou to raise and ...
THEY came across the distant hills With trumpet, pipe, and drum; And all the air with welcome fills, Which deepens ...
PAINTED on a little cloud, Opposite the sunset sky, Far above the high-pil'd crowd Sailing slowly softly by, I saw ...
HILLS that were born of ages, Heaving slowly from the deep, Are shaking down their tresses, Silver-threaded from the steep; ...
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