The Return Of Law (Francis Turner Palgrave Poems)
1660At last the long darkness of anarchy lifts, and the dawn o'er the grayIn rosy pulsation floods; the tremulous amber ...
1660At last the long darkness of anarchy lifts, and the dawn o'er the grayIn rosy pulsation floods; the tremulous amber ...
1 England, fair England! Empress isle of isles! --Round whom the loving-envious ocean plays, Girdling thy feet with silver and ...
17851 O sunset, of the rise Unworthy!--that, so brave, so clear, so gay; This, prison'd in low-hanging earth-mists ...
1295So the land had rest! and the cloud of that heart-sore struggle and painRose from her ancient hills, and peace ...
October 14: 1066'Gyrth, is it dawn in the sky that I see? or is all the sky blood?Heavy and sore ...
_FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST OF JUNE_1887. . . _Sunt hic sua praemia laudi_,_Sunt lacrimae rerum_ . . . As when the ...
September: 1643Sweet air and fresh; glades yet unsear'd by handOf Midas-finger'd Autumn, massy-green;Bird-haunted nooks between,Where feathery ferns, a fairy palmglove, ...
August 13: 1704 Oft hast thou acted thy part, My country, worthily thee! Lifted ...
November 5: 1640Harsh words have been utter'd and written on her, Henrietta the Queen:She was young in a difficult part, ...
October 21: 1805Heard ye the thunder of battle Low in the South and afar?Saw ye the flash of the death-cloud ...
May 16: 1568Blow from the North, thou bitter North wind,Blow over the western bay,Where Nith and Eden and Esk run ...
August 26: 1346 At Crecy by Somme in Ponthieu High up on ...
1810As who, while erst the Achaians wall'd the shore, Stood Atlas-like before,A granite face against the Trojan sea Of foes ...
September: 1588 Let them come, come never so proudly, O'er the green waves as giants ride; Silver clarions ...
September 8: 1650Child in girlhood's early grace,Pale white rose of royal race,Flower of France, and England's flower,What dost here at ...
1100Through sapling shades of summer green, By glade and height and hollow,Where Rufus rode the stag to bay,King Henry spurs ...
August 2: 1100Where the greenwood is greenestAt gloaming of day,Where the twelve-antler'd stagFaces boldest at bay;Where the solitude deepens,Till almost ...
December 10: 1282Llanyis on Irfon, thine oaks in the drearRed eve of December are wind-swept and sere,Where a king by ...
_A TALE OF PRINCE RUPERT_September 30: 1651Seventy league from Terceira they lay In the mid Atlantic straining;And inch upon inch ...
February 11: 1655 As when the King of old 'Mid Babylonian gold,And picture-woven walls, and lamps ...
_ON THE EAST DEVON COAST_Lie still, old Dane, below thy heap! --A sturdy-back and sturdy-limb, Whoe'er he was, I warrant ...
627The black-hair'd gaunt Paulinus By ruddy Edwin stood:--'Bow down, O King of Deira, Before the holy Rood!Cast forth thy demon ...
August 7: 1645Cold blue cloud on the hill-tops,Cold buffets of hill-side rain:--As a bird that they hunt on the mountains,The ...
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