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 ...
To a region of song and of sunnier day,The battle-host wended its wearisome way,Through the terrible Splugen's tenebrious gloom,That seemed ...
Fair town of toil, whose enterprise and powerExpand and strengthen every day and hour,To thy brave sons all honour and ...
It is well that beauteous woman Has the quickest sense of wrong;That the tenderest traits of feeling To her faithful heart belong;That ...
Once more to visit a distracted world, The spirit of sweet Peace comes trembling down,As war's ensanguined flag is newly furled, And ...
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 ...
"Oh! will he come?" said Alice Wray, "He did not once deceive,And for the dear sake of the past I will again ...
"Look up!" cried the seaman, with nerves like steel, As skyward his glance he cast,And beheld his own son grow giddy, ...
The wild rose, mingled with the fragrant bine,Is calmly graceful, beautiful to me,And glorious are the countless stars that shineWith ...
'Tis strange, profanely strange, but men will stand Upon some spot of blighted happiness,Where the Omnipotent's mysterious hand Has fallen with disaster ...
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