Quarterman’s Grace. Part II (Emily Pfeiffer Poems)
The fields and lanes show fresh and fain Pranked in the jewels of the rain; And the scent that breathes ...
The fields and lanes show fresh and fain Pranked in the jewels of the rain; And the scent that breathes ...
What is to say, had best be said, So, Lilian, ...
Scene I.A Garden on the banks of the Thames, at Fulham, behind the Wynnes' lodgings. Time, evening. Moon and starlight. ...
'Twas the hour of four by Quarterman's clock Of a July day in the afternoon,- Four of the clock, not ...
Beautiful Death! I sing thee as one has sung Whose ...
I sat apart upon a hill, And piped and piped ...
Scene I.The great Hall of Wynhavod House. The walls hung with old portraits, arms, trophies of the chase, and a ...
My lady sat in her bower, and span From a newly plenished creel; She loved the wild sea noise that ...
Three long days o'er the barren steppe Where the earth lay dead in her winding-sheet She measured the hours from ...
Mother, when we meet upon that shore, Where I too ...
Two shapes passed over the sobbing sea To land at Dunolly Bay; One passed at sunrise, one at noon Of ...
The wassail had reached its stormy height, The feast was over in hall, When there came and stood at the ...
I know not how, dear heart, I came to love you as I do,- ...
Rose-red for the banner of love, And a blush for the cheek of the bride; To the valleys and hills ...
IN EAR OF CLUNY WATER.I. BREAK, break, O heart! upon this stony shore Of Time, for not the most tormented ...
When the morning board with the rests of the feast Was set, and the martial kin- The vassals in chief ...
It was over at Is?ndula, the bloody work was done, And the yet unburied dead looked up unblinking at the ...
As the red Maclean went to and fro 'Twixt Duart and Cairnburg tower, One day he chanced to spy a ...
I. PEACE to the odalisque, the facile slave, Whose unrespective love rewards the brave, Or cherishes the coward; she who ...
I. O YE in all the world who love true Song, Be gentle to the singers who uplift In innocent ...
I. O NATURE! thou whom I have thought to love, Seeing in thine the reflex of God's face, A loathed ...
I.Cain And Abel THOU, the young world's first dead, unwept shall be Through storied time, pure spirit, called to rise ...
God is the God of the living, not of the dead. ...
Love, show thine eyes, thy stature infinite; Thou child of ...
I. O HEART of man! be humble, nor disdain The latest gospel preached beneath the sun; Learn of the brute ...
I. A MOTH belated,-sun and zephyr-kist,- Trembling about a pale arbutus bell, Probing to wildering depths its honeyed cell,- A ...
I. DAUGHTER of gods and men, great ruling will, Seething in oily rage within the sphere Which gods and men ...
The Unrequitable. GONE, with the toil of nigh twelve months undone, Cut from thy grasp by sloth and treachery, When ...
THOU standest within thy tabernacle, crowned, Rapt from the world's vain pleasures and turmoil, While, filled with blessing, and sweet ...
WOMAN, whose lot hath alway been to bear Love's load beneath the heart, set there to hold It high, and ...
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