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 ...
"My limbs wax strong, my thoughts expand," Said Christopher of old,As he lay musing 'mid the hills, His flock within the fold,-"I ...
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 ...
I HEAR men laud the coming Exhibition, I read its promise in the printed page,And thence I learn that its pacific ...
"Look up!" cried the seaman, with nerves like steel, As skyward his glance he cast,And beheld his own son grow giddy, ...
Albeit for lack of bread we die, Die in a hundred nameless ways,'Tis not for bread alone we cry In these our ...
"Maiden, as bright as the Hunter's star,When it shines in its cloudless home afar;Dove of the forest, whose timorous eyesAre ...
It seems but yesterday, when merry Spring Leapt o'er the lea, while clustering round her feet Sprang buds and blossoms, beautiful and ...
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