The Coelian Hill (Bessie Rayner Parkes Poems)
OF all the seven which Rome doth boast, (Fair hills and nobly crowned!) I love the Coelian Hill the most, ...
OF all the seven which Rome doth boast, (Fair hills and nobly crowned!) I love the Coelian Hill the most, ...
TIMID strangers, I can fancy How amidst the hedge ye grew, While the gusty winds of Autumn Coloured leaves upon ...
WITHIN a little room Doth one dear Painter sit, 'Tis fringed with Summer bloom, And the ivy drops o'er it: ...
At New York.I SAW you seated in your lonely room, Of human friends forlorn, of spirits full, Who gave you ...
A LITTLE bird sat on a greenwood tree, And out of a holy book read he, His native notes adorning; ...
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 ...
WHERE shall ye lay me? not in foreign climes, Where stranger winds would sadly waft the unaccustom'd chimes; Where my ...
OUT from the house I went when early dawn As yet had hardly ting'd the peaks with gold, And cottage-smoke ...
THE skies were dark and bright, Like the eyes that I love best, When I looked into the night From ...
AT Reigate, underneath the trees, The autumn ferns were crisped with brown; And, fluttering on a fitful breeze, The autumn-leaves ...
SPIK'D reed and golden Iris bending over Low-running streams, and that small pleading flower We none of us forget, with ...
WHAT do the scales of Justice hold, Poised even in that steady hand?-- What is that measure closely scanned? Is ...
OF temples built by mortal hands, Give honour to the Lateran first; 'Twas here the hope of many lands-- The ...
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 ...
I LOVE to lie In the dreamy heat of an autumn day, Where the painted insects idly play, Floating about ...
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 ...
DEAR smoky Birmingham, since long ago I left your native streets, my heart and hope Have been with those dense ...
THROUGH these closecut alleys Paced Gabrielle; At her side, in royal pride, Henri bon et bel. Ah! my love across ...
WE pray for earth and earthly things, Surely such prayer is nought, A bended knee, a lifted voice Unmixed with ...
WE stand together on the deck, Around us twilight falleth fast, And the soft rain of autumn bears Its welcome ...
NO word of pity, if the storm should beat, Need any voice bestow which calls you dear; You will not ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, drowned July 8, 1822.MARY WOLSTONCRAFT SHELLEY, died Feb. 1, 1851.In death they are not divided.TWO graves within ...
HILLS that were born of ages, Heaving slowly from the deep, Are shaking down their tresses, Silver-threaded from the steep; ...
BIRDS will pipe another spring Songs we shall not hear, Ancient Sabbath-bell will ring Vainly for our ear. Never more ...
THE steadfast coursing of the stars, The waves that ripple to the shore, The vigorous trees which year by year ...
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