Saint Maura: A.D. 304 (Charles Kingsley Poems)
Thank God! Those gazers' eyes are gone at last!The guards are crouching underneath the rock;The lights are fading in the ...
Thank God! Those gazers' eyes are gone at last!The guards are crouching underneath the rock;The lights are fading in the ...
Hence a while, severer Muses;Spare your slaves till drear October.Hence; for Alma Mater choosesNot to be for ever sober:But, like ...
How will it dawn, the coming Christmas Day?A northern Christmas, such as painters love,And kinsfolk, shaking hands but once a ...
He wiled me through the furzy croft;He wiled me down the sandy lane.He told his boy's love, soft and oft,Until ...
Ye mountains, on whose torrent-furrowed slopes,And bare and silent brows uplift to heaven,I envied oft the soul which fills your ...
Evil sped the battle playOn the Pope Calixtus' day;Mighty war-smiths, thanes and lords,In Senlac slept the sleep of swords.Harold Earl, ...
The swevens came up round Harold the Earl,Like motes in the sunnes beam;And over him stood the Weird Lady,In her ...
Come hearken, hearken, gentles all,Come hearken unto me,And I'll sing you a song of a Wood-LyonCame swimming out over the ...
It was Sir John, the fair young Priest,He strode up off the strand;But seven fisher maidens he left behindAll dancing ...
The Day of the Lord is at hand, at hand:Its storms roll up the sky:The nations sleep starving on heaps ...
It chanced upon the merry merry Christmas eve,I went sighing past the church across the moorland dreary—'Oh! never sin and ...
I cannot tell what you say green leaves, I cannot tell what you say: But I know that there is ...
Accept this building, gracious Lord,No temple though it be;We raised it for our suffering kin,And so, Good Lord, for Thee.Accept ...
Oh, forth she went like a braw, braw brideTo meet her winsome groom,When she was aware of twa bonny birdsSat ...
I would have loved: there are no mates in heaven;I would be great: there is no pride in heaven;I would ...
Ah tyrant Love, Megaera's serpents bearing,Why thus requite my sighs with venom'd smart?Ah ruthless dove, the vulture's talons wearing,Why flesh ...
My parents bow, and lead them forth,For all the crowd to see—Ah well! the people might not careTo cheer a ...
Soft soft wind, from out the sweet south sliding,Waft thy silver cloud webs athwart the summer sea;Thin thin threads of ...
Twin stars, aloft in ether clear,Around each other roll alway,Within one common atmosphereOf their own mutual light and day.And myriad ...
A King is dead! Another master mindIs summoned from the world-wide council hall.Ah, for some seer, to say what links ...
I cannot tell what you say green leaves, I cannot tell what you say : But I know that there ...
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