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 ...
Charles Kingsley Poems on Man (27 Poems)
The Song of The Little Baltung: A.D. 395 (Charles Kingsley Poems)
A harper came over the Danube so wide,And he came into Alaric's hall,And he sang the song of the little ...
Ode On The Istallation of the Duke of Devonshire (Charles Kingsley Poems)
Hence a while, severer Muses;Spare your slaves till drear October.Hence; for Alma Mater choosesNot to be for ever sober:But, like ...
Christmas Day (Charles Kingsley Poems)
How will it dawn, the coming Christmas Day?A northern Christmas, such as painters love,And kinsfolk, shaking hands but once a ...
The Legend of La Brea (Charles Kingsley Poems)
Down beside the loathly Pitch Lake,In the stately Morichal,Sat an ancient Spanish Indian,Peering through the columns tall.Watching vainly for the ...
The Longbeard’s Saga: A.D. 400 (Charles Kingsley Poems)
Over the camp-firesDrank I with heroes,Under the Donau bank,Warm in the snow trench:Sagamen heard I there,Men of the Longbeards,Cunning and ...
The Bad Squire (Charles Kingsley Poems)
The merry brown hares came leapingOver the crest of the hill,Where the clover and corn lay sleepingUnder the moonlight still.Leaping ...
The Red King (Charles Kingsley Poems)
The King was drinking in Malwood Hall,There came in a monk before them all:He thrust by squire, he thrust by ...
The Outlaw (Charles Kingsley Poems)
Oh, I wadna be a yeoman, mither, to follow my father's trade,To bow my back in miry banks, at pleugh ...
The Invitation: To Tom Hughes (Charles Kingsley Poems)
Come away with me, Tom,Term and talk are done;My poor lads are reaping,Busy every one.Curates mind the parish,Sweepers mind the ...
A New Forest Ballad (Charles Kingsley Poems)
Oh she tripped over Ocknell plain,And down by Bradley Water;And the fairest maid on the forest sideWas Jane, the keeper's ...
Ode To The North-East Wind (Charles Kingsley Poems)
Welcome, wild North-easter.Shame it is to seeOdes to every zephyr;Ne'er a verse to thee.Welcome, black North-easter!O'er the German foam;O'er the ...
Ballad: Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorree (Charles Kingsley Poems)
1'Are you ready for your steeple-chase, Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorree?Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum, Baree,You're booked to ride your capping ...
Drifting Away: A Fragment (Charles Kingsley Poems)
(Written for music to be sung at a parish industrial exhibition)See the land, her Easter keeping,Rises as her Maker rose.Seeds, ...
The Priest’s Heart (Charles Kingsley Poems)
It was Sir John, the fair young Priest,He strode up off the strand;But seven fisher maidens he left behindAll dancing ...
The Knight’s Leap: A Legend of Altenar (Charles Kingsley Poems)
'So the foemen have fired the gate, men of mine;And the water is spent and gone?Then bring me a cup ...
Down To The Mothers (Charles Kingsley Poems)
Linger no more, my beloved, by abbey and cell and cathedral;Mourn not for holy ones mourning of old them who ...
The World’s Age (Charles Kingsley Poems)
Who will say the world is dying?Who will say our prime is past?Sparks from Heaven, within us lying,Flash, and will ...
A Thought From The Rhine (Charles Kingsley Poems)
I heard an Eagle crying all aloneAbove the vineyards through the summer night,Among the skeletons of robber towers:Because the ancient ...
The Ugly Princess (Charles Kingsley Poems)
My parents bow, and lead them forth,For all the crowd to see—Ah well! the people might not careTo cheer a ...
Child Ballad (Charles Kingsley Poems)
Jesus, He loves one and all,Jesus, He loves children small,Their souls are waiting round His feetOn high, before His mercy-seat.While ...
On The Death of Leopold: King of The Belgians (Charles Kingsley Poems)
A King is dead! Another master mindIs summoned from the world-wide council hall.Ah, for some seer, to say what links ...
Dolcino To Margaret (Charles Kingsley Poems)
The world goes up and the world goes down,And the sunshine follows the rain;And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frownCan never ...
Old And New: A Parable (Charles Kingsley Poems)
See how the autumn leaves float by decaying,Down the wild swirls of the rain-swollen stream.So fleet the works of men, ...
The Three Fishers (Charles Kingsley Poem)
1 Three fishers went sailing away to the west, 2 Away to the west as the sun went down; 3 ...
Lorraine (Charles Kingsley Poem)
"ARE you ready for your steeplechase, Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorree? Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum, Baree. You're booked to ride ...
Ode to the Northeast Wind (Charles Kingsley Poem)
Welcome, wild Northeaster! Shame it is to see Odes to every zephyr; Ne'er a verse to thee. Welcome, black Northeaster! ...