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 ...
Hear me! ye firm and uncorrupted few,Followers of freedom! and of virtue too!Ye, who are pleading with a noble zealFor ...
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 ...
Fair town of toil, whose enterprise and powerExpand and strengthen every day and hour,To thy brave sons all honour and ...
Little Ella, fairest, dearest Unto me and unto mine,Earthly cherub, coming nearest Unto me and unto mine!Her brief absence frets and pains ...
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 ...
Once more to visit a distracted world, The spirit of sweet Peace comes trembling down,As war's ensanguined flag is newly furled, And ...
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 ...
Oh! judge not too hastily man and his mind, Nor deem ye can read him at once and for aye,There is ...
Let us honour the gods of the household alway, Love ever the hearth and its graces,The spot where serenely and cheerfully ...
"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, ...
Albeit for lack of bread we die, Die in a hundred nameless ways,'Tis not for bread alone we cry In these our ...
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