Leonora (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik Poems)
LEONORA, Leonora, How the word rolls--Leonora-- Lion-like, in full-mouthed sound, Marching o'er the metric ground With a tawny tread sublime-- ...
LEONORA, Leonora, How the word rolls--Leonora-- Lion-like, in full-mouthed sound, Marching o'er the metric ground With a tawny tread sublime-- ...
Parting for Australia.HERE sitting by the fire I aspire, love, I aspire-- Not to that "other world" of your fond ...
WAVY and bright in the summer air, Like a pleasant sea when the wind blows fair, And its roughest breath ...
SING away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird, Always gayest of the gay, Though a woodland roundelay You ne'er sung ...
O THE long northern twilight between the day and the night, When the heat and the weariness of the world ...
THE tide has ebbed away: No more wild dashings 'gainst the adamant rocks, Nor swayings amidst sea-weed false that mocks ...
FACE upward to the sky Quiet I lie: Quiet as if the finger of God's will Had bade this human ...
I TOOK the wren's nest;-- Heaven forgive me! Its merry architects so small Had scarcely finished their wee hall, That, ...
LACK-LUSTRE eye, and idle wing, And smirch?d breast that skims no more, White as the foam itself, the wave-- Hast ...
IT is but a little while ago: The elm-leaves have scarcely begun to drop away; The sunbeams strike the elm-trunk ...
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