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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Not yet is autumn desolate and cold, For all his woods are kindling into huesOf gorgeous beauty, mixed and manifold, Which in ...
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