Clifton Grove (Henry Kirke White Poems)
Lo! in the west, fast fades the lingering light,And day's last vestige takes its silent flight.No more is heard the ...
Lo! in the west, fast fades the lingering light,And day's last vestige takes its silent flight.No more is heard the ...
PART I.Pictured in memory's mellowing glass, how sweetOur infant days, our infant joys, to greet;To roam in fancy in each ...
BOOK I.I.I sing the Cross!—Ye white-robed angel choirs,Who know the chords of harmony to sweep,Ye who o'er holy David's varying ...
The night it was still, and the moon it shoneSerenely on the sea,And the waves at the foot of the ...
Saw'st thou that light? exclaim'd the youth, and paused:Through yon dark firs it glanced, and on the streamThat skirts the ...
I. 1.Many there be, who, through the vale of life,With velvet pace, unnoticed, softly go,While jarring discord's inharmonious strifeAwakes them ...
Ye many twinkling stars, who yet do holdYour brilliant places in the sable vaultOf night's dominions!—Planets, and central orbsOf other ...
Yet once more, and once more, awake, my Harp,From silence and neglect—one lofty strain;Lofty, yet wilder than the winds of ...
It is not that my lot is low,That bids this silent tear to flow;It is not grief that bids me ...
Come all ye true hearts, who, Old England to save,Now shoulder the musket, or plough the rough wave,I will sing ...
Thou, spirit of the spangled night!I woo thee from the watchtower high,Where thou dost sit to guide the barkOf lonely ...
Mild orb, who floatest through the realm of night,A pathless wanderer o'er a lonely wild,Welcome to me thy soft and ...
I've read, my friend, of Dioclesian,And many another noble Grecian,Who wealth and palaces resigned,In cots the joys of peace to ...
Hark! how the merry bells ring jocund round,And now they die upon the veering breezeAnon they thunder loudFull on the ...
Away with Death—awayWith all her sluggish sleeps and chilling damps,Impervious to the day,Where nature sinks into inanity.How can the soul ...
Silence of death—portentous calm,Those airy forms that yonder flyDenote that your void foreruns a storm,That the hour of fate is ...
"In Heaven we shall be purified, so as to be able to endure the splendours of the Deity."Awake, sweet harp ...
When marshal'd on the nightly plain,The glittering host bestud the sky;One star alone, of all the train,Can fix the sinner's ...
O Lord, another day is flown,And we, a lonely band,Are met once more before thy throne,To bless thy fostering hand.And ...
As thus oppressed with many a heavy care(Though young yet sorrowful), I turn my feetTo the dark woodland, longing much ...
Fast from the west the fading day-streaks fly,And ebon Night assumes her solemn sway,Yet here alone, unheeding time, I lie,And ...
God help thee, Traveller, on thy journey far;The wind is bitter keen, - the snow o'erlaysThe hidden pits, and dangerous ...
Oft in sorrow, oft in woe,Onward, Christians, onward go;Fight the fight, maintain the strife,Strengthened with the bread of life.Let your ...
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