Sonnet I. (Christopher Pearse Cranch Poems)
THE Summer goes, with all its birds and flowers;The Autumn passes with its solemn sky;The Winter comes again - yet ...
THE Summer goes, with all its birds and flowers;The Autumn passes with its solemn sky;The Winter comes again - yet ...
OF love that was, of friendship in the daysOf youth long gone, yet oft remembered still,And seen like distant landscapes ...
IN my friend's library I sit alone,Hemmed in by books. The dead and living there,Shrined in a thousand volumes rich ...
YE idle hours of summer, not in vain,To one by Nature's beauty fed, ye pass -Though sending through the mental ...
WARM, generous and young in heart and brain,A wise, ripe scholar of the antique mould,Had he but chosen he might ...
YET in all facts of sense life stands revealed;And from a thousand symbols hope may takeIts charter to escape the ...
THE small enlarged, the distant nearer broughtTo sight, made marvels in a denser age.But Science turns with every year a ...
OR endless sleep 't will be, - and that is rest,Freedom forever from life's weary cares -Or else a life ...
HOW grand he would have stood, had he declinedThe needless coronet he donned, as thoughIts gilt could heighten his proud ...
YET what were love, and what were toil and thought,And what were life, bereft of Poesy?Who lingers in a garden ...
WITH what a live intelligence the flameGlows and leaps up in spires of flickering red,And turns the coal just now ...
Many a year has fled awaySince this old palette was new, As may be seen by the spots of greenAnd ...
IF death be final, what is life, with allIts lavish promises, its thwarted aims,Its lost ideals, its dishonored claims,Its uncompleted ...
I MET one in the Land of SleepWho seemed a friend long known and true.I woke. That friend I could ...
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