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 Work & Career (10 Poems)
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 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 ...
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, ...
Hymn (Charles Kingsley Poems)
Accept this building, gracious Lord,No temple though it be;We raised it for our suffering kin,And so, Good Lord, for Thee.Accept ...
The Poetry of A Root Crop (Charles Kingsley Poems)
Underneath their eider-robeRusset swede and golden globe,Feathered carrot, burrowing deep,Steadfast wait in charmed sleep;Treasure-houses wherein lie,Locked by angels' alchemy,Milk and ...
Alton Locke’s Song (Charles Kingsley Poems)
Weep, weep, weep and weep,For pauper, dolt, and slave!Hark! from wasted moor and fen,Feverous alley, stifling den,Swells the wail of ...
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 ...