‘The Defence Of Rorke’s Drift’: A Reverie In The Art Gallery (Emily Mary Barton Poems)
"The fierceness of man shall turn to Thy praise."HAIL, thoughtful wanderer, to these halls of Art,Here, let her bright conceptions ...
"The fierceness of man shall turn to Thy praise."HAIL, thoughtful wanderer, to these halls of Art,Here, let her bright conceptions ...
1st November, 1837Another bright summer for ever has fled.And the song of the warblers is silent and dead;The heavens are ...
RUINS! Alas we have been wont to say,With half regretful tone, that in the graceAnd glory of our country's youthful ...
I am coming! I am coming! with my joyous tones of mirth.I am coming! I am coming! to gladden all ...
YES, she is blind! You well might doubt her doom,Seeing her softly move across the room:And from the organ, in ...
(Suggested By A Fine Horse, Restive In Youth, But Useful In Age.)IN the cool of a summer evening.'Mid pleasant sights ...
LONG months, aye years, of dreary dearthHave scathed the beauty of the earth;No humblest weed, no blade of green,For miles ...
BONNIE wee laddies, and rosy-check'd lassies,Joyfully trotting to Kindergart classes,How gaily you march to the music of duty;Pictures and poems ...
OPEN the beautiful gates of the West,A chariot of gold is waiting the guestWho, for twelve rolling moons, has been ...
A GEM is ours that never shone before,A sweet white flower that will not bloom again:An open page whereon all ...
LIGHT and short our Winter's sleeping,Dreaming still of sunny hours:In his bosom safely keepingGerms of beauty, folded flow'rs.At the touch ...
BEAUTIFUL our passing year;He is not "old," he is not grey;Lay for him a flow'ry bierSummer sheds her warmest tear,As ...
WHAT is the spell that, to each human heart,Bids Memory's tide in sweetest ripples come?While tear and smile, in bright ...
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