Pictures Of The Rhine (George Meredith Poems)
I The spirit of Romance dies not to those Who hold a kindred spirit in their souls: Even as the ...
I The spirit of Romance dies not to those Who hold a kindred spirit in their souls: Even as the ...
ISword in length a reaping-hook amainHarald sheared his field, blood up to shank:'Mid the swathes of slain,First at moonrise drank.IIThereof ...
Under what spell are we debasedBy fears for our inviolate Isle,Whose record is of dangers facedAnd flung to heel with ...
IThe shepherd, with his eye on hazy South,Has told of rain upon the fall of day.But promise is there none ...
I When the Head of Bran Was firm on British shoulders, God made a man! Cried all beholders. Steel could ...
IThe Tyrant passed, and friendlier was his eyeOn the great man of Athens, whom for foeHe knew, than on the ...
We who have seen Italia in the throes,Half risen but to be hurled to ground, and nowLike a ripe field ...
IAn English heart, my commandant,A soldier's eye you have, awakeTo right and left; with looks askantOn bulwarks not of adamant,Where ...
What splendour of imperial station man,The Tree of Life, may reach when, rooted fast,His branching stem points way to upper ...
That march of the funereal Past behold;How Glory sat on Bondage for its throne;How men, like dazzled insects, through the ...
So now the horses of Aiakides, off wide of the war-ground,Wept, since first they were ware ...
He leads: we hear our Seaman's callIn the roll of battles won;For he is Britain's AdmiralTill setting of her sun.When ...
The daisy now is out upon the green; And in the grassy lanes The child of April rains, The sweet ...
The hundred years have passed, and heWhose name appeased a nation's fears,As with a hand laid over sea;To thunder through ...
IThe day that is the night of days,With cannon-fire for sun ablazeWe spy from any billow's lift;And England still this ...
I She can be as wise as we, And wiser when she wishes; She can knit with cunning wit, And ...
Rich labour is the struggle to be wise,While we make sure the struggle cannot cease.Else better were it in some ...
Avert, High Wisdom, never vainly wooed,This threat of War, that shows a land brain-sick.When nations gain the pitch where rhetoricSeems ...
February 2, 1901Her sacred body bear: the tenementOf that strong soul now ranked with God's ElectHer heart upon her people's ...
Between the fountain and the rillI passed, and saw the mighty willTo leap at sky; the careless run,As earth would ...
WHEN by Zeus relenting the mandate was revoked, Sentencing to exile the bright Sun-God, Mindful were the ploughmen of who ...
Pitch here the tent, while the old horse grazes: By the old hedge-side we'll halt a stage. It's nigh my ...
I bade my Lady think what she might mean. Know I my meaning, I? Can I love one, And yet ...
Their sense is with their senses all mixed in, Destroyed by subleties these women are! More brain, O Lord, more ...
Am I failing ? For no longer can I cast A glory round about this head of gold. Glory she ...
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