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 ...
There is no nobler labour for mankindThan to instruct and elevate the mind,To pour into the eager ears of youthThe ...
Let us honour the gods of the household alway, Love ever the hearth and its graces,The spot where serenely and cheerfully ...
I mourn, albeit I mourn in vain, To miss that being from my sideWho bound in Love's resistless chain My selfishness and ...
The wild rose, mingled with the fragrant bine,Is calmly graceful, beautiful to me,And glorious are the countless stars that shineWith ...
Love is an odour from the heavenly bowers Which stirs our senses tenderly, and brings Dreams which are shadows of diviner things,Beyond ...
Pure and unstained, I live in Cowper's lore;On heavenward pinions I with Milton soar;Ever and anon I change with playful ...
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