Winter Thoughts (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Stern Winter! stormy, sullen, cold, and dun,Thou joyless outcast from the genial sun,Thou gloomiest offspring of the rolling year,With front ...
Stern Winter! stormy, sullen, cold, and dun,Thou joyless outcast from the genial sun,Thou gloomiest offspring of the rolling year,With front ...
"O dearest mother! tell me, pray, Why are the dew-drops gone so soon?Could they not stay till close of day,To sparkle ...
Little Ella, fairest, dearest Unto me and unto mine,Earthly cherub, coming nearest Unto me and unto mine!Her brief absence frets and pains ...
Nothing is lost; the drop of dew That trembles on the leaf or flowerIs but exhaled, to fall anew In summer's thunder-shower:Perchance ...
Christmas-eve came to us darkly, Darkly to our cottage door,Not with brave and boisterous greeting, As it used to come of yore;Not ...
I mourn, albeit I mourn in vain, To miss that being from my sideWho bound in Love's resistless chain My selfishness and ...
"Look up!" cried the seaman, with nerves like steel, As skyward his glance he cast,And beheld his own son grow giddy, ...
"Maiden, as bright as the Hunter's star,When it shines in its cloudless home afar;Dove of the forest, whose timorous eyesAre ...
Love is an odour from the heavenly bowers Which stirs our senses tenderly, and brings Dreams which are shadows of diviner things,Beyond ...
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