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 ...
_THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE_1491 As she who in some village-child unknown, With rustic grace and fantasy bedeck'd And in her simple ...
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 ...
1382It is a dream, I know:--Yet on the pastOf this dear England if in thought we gaze,About her seems a ...
_FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST OF JUNE_1887. . . _Sunt hic sua praemia laudi_,_Sunt lacrimae rerum_ . . . As when the ...
_HARCOMBE NEAR LYME_September: 1878 Before me with one happy heave Of golden green the hillside curves, ...
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 ...
October 21: 1805Heard ye the thunder of battle Low in the South and afar?Saw ye the flash of the death-cloud ...
1348-9 Blue and ever more blue The sky of that summer's spring: No cloud ...
1840-1861 Thrice fortunate heWho, in the palace born, has early learn'd The lore of sweet simplicity:From smiling ...
November 5: 1640Harsh words have been utter'd and written on her, Henrietta the Queen:She was young in a difficult part, ...
June: 1857 Fourteen, all told, no more, Pack'd close within the door ...
October 2: 15861 Where Guelderland outspreads Her green wide water-meads Laced by the silver ...
July 6: 1535The midnight moaning streamDraws down its glassy surface through the bridgeThat o'er the current casts a tower'd ridge,Dark ...
June 18: 1643 Flags crape-smother'd and arms reversed, With one sad volley lay him to rest: Lay him to rest ...
May 16: 1568Blow from the North, thou bitter North wind,Blow over the western bay,Where Nith and Eden and Esk run ...
1553-4 Two ships upon the steel-blue Arctic seas When day was long and night itself was day, Forged heavily before ...
1712 We count him wise,Timoleon, who in Syracuse laid down That gleaming bait of all men's eyes,And ...
August 26: 1346 At Crecy by Somme in Ponthieu High up on ...
November 5: 1854 In the solid sombre mist And the drizzling dazzling shower They may mass them as they list, ...
1685_Fear not_, _my child, though the days be dark_, _Never fear_, _he will come again_,_With the long brown hair_, _and ...
October 5: 1860Before the hero's grave he stood,--A simple stone of rest, and bareTo all the blessing of the air,--And ...
Palm Sunday: 1461Love, Who from the throne aboveCam'st to teach the law of love,Who Thy peaceful triumph hastLed o'er palms ...
1810As who, while erst the Achaians wall'd the shore, Stood Atlas-like before,A granite face against the Trojan sea Of foes ...
1871 In the drear November gloom And the long December night, There were omens of affright, And prophecies of doom;And ...
September: 1588 Let them come, come never so proudly, O'er the green waves as giants ride; Silver clarions ...
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