The Painter Of Florence (Ernest Jones Poems)
THERE'S a mansion old 'mid the hills of the west,So old, that men know not by whom it was built;But ...
Ernest Jones Poems on Death & Dying (23 Poems)
The Battle-Day, Or, The Lost Army (Ernest Jones Poems)
I. LINDSAY castle's jutted forth On the wild, old sounding sea,And a gallant race of the hardy North, ...
The Life Of A Flower (Ernest Jones Poems)
AMID the bright'ning glories of the earth,I watched a humble floweret from its birth;'Twas a pale blossom and a simple ...
The March Of Freedom (Ernest Jones Poems)
The nations are all calling To and fro, from strand to strand;Uniting in one army The slaves of ...
Percy Vere, The Peer’s Story – Introduction (Ernest Jones Poems)
TO MY READERS,-MY Life has been a wild, strange life,Now lulled in love-now wrapt in strife;I've had my dreams as ...
The Factory Town (Ernest Jones Poems)
The night had sunk along the city, It was a bleak and cheerless hour;The wild-winds sung their solemn ditty ...
The Prisoner’s Dream (Ernest Jones Poems)
The wind! the wind plays o'er the prison-bar, Still fresh from kissing the green forest-leaves;Rending the wheat-fields in the ...
The Better Hope (Ernest Jones Poems)
A CHILD of the hard-hearted world was I, And a worldling callous of heart,And eager to play with the ...
New Year’s Eve (Ernest Jones Poems)
DARKNESS on the endless sea; A wild, wild wailing cry;And the sun came down-like a ...
The Marriage Feast (Ernest Jones Poems)
Come to the marriage-feast Where the glittering tables wait-Where the greatest shall be the least, And the least ...
The Peasant (Ernest Jones Poems)
FORTH to the fight! then shining sword of song! Sing, sing the toil, that makes the toiler strong. Sing, how ...
Where? (Ernest Jones Poems)
Where is Love? Oh! rather, name the spot ...
Hope (Ernest Jones Poems)
Gate!-that never wholly closes, Opening yet so oft in vain!Garden! full of thorny roses! ...
The Poet’s Prayer To The Evening Wind (Ernest Jones Poems)
WILD rider of grey clouds, beneath whose breath The stars dissolve in mist, or rain, or sleet;Who chariotest the ...
Our Summons (Ernest Jones Poems)
Men of the honest heart, Men of the stalwart hand,Men, willing to obey, Thence able to command:Men of ...
To Her (Ernest Jones Poems)
To love, and to love hopelessly, It is a bitter lot!Not the idle I love that partsLight as it ...
The Italian Exile To His Countrymen (Ernest Jones Poems)
MY countrymen! why languish Like outcasts of the earth,And drown in tears of anguish The glory of your ...
Our Cheer (Ernest Jones Poems)
My countrymen! why languish Like outcasts of the earth,And drown in tears of anguish The glory of your ...
Prison Fancies (Ernest Jones Poems)
Composed when confined to a solitary cell, on breadand water, without books or writing materials, May 1849 Troublesome fancies beset ...
The Legacy (Ernest Jones Poems)
Written in the Infirmary of Westminster Prison, when notexpecting to recover, March, 1850. Behold! unto my death bed sent, ...
Rebecca At The Well (Ernest Jones Poems)
In the desert of life I found thee,In the wide, wide desert of life alone! The wilderness ...
Resignation (Ernest Jones Poems)
Written in the Infirmary of Westminster Prison,during severe illness, November, 1849. We all have our allotted task; Their burden ...
To Wordsworth (Ernest Jones Poems)
On hearing of his death. April 27, 1850. He's gone! tis said.-Be still, false tongueHe's with us yet in ...