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 ...
John Critchley Prince Poems (33 Poems)
Death Of A Factory Child (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Hear me! ye firm and uncorrupted few,Followers of freedom! and of virtue too!Ye, who are pleading with a noble zealFor ...
The Child And The Dew-Drops (in memory of a lost son). (John Critchley Prince Poems)
"O dearest mother! tell me, pray, Why are the dew-drops gone so soon?Could they not stay till close of day,To sparkle ...
Saint Christopher — A Legend. (John Critchley Prince Poems)
"My limbs wax strong, my thoughts expand," Said Christopher of old,As he lay musing 'mid the hills, His flock within the fold,-"I ...
The Drummer’s Death-Roll (John Critchley Prince Poems)
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 ...
Address At Ashton-Under-Lyne Literary Institute (John Critchley Prince Poems)
There is no nobler labour for mankindThan to instruct and elevate the mind,To pour into the eager ears of youthThe ...
Inauguration Of Ashton-Under-Lyne Infirmary (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Fair town of toil, whose enterprise and powerExpand and strengthen every day and hour,To thy brave sons all honour and ...
The Household Darling (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Little Ella, fairest, dearest Unto me and unto mine,Earthly cherub, coming nearest Unto me and unto mine!Her brief absence frets and pains ...
A Plea For Woman. (John Critchley Prince Poems)
It is well that beauteous woman Has the quickest sense of wrong;That the tenderest traits of feeling To her faithful heart belong;That ...
A Voice From The Factory (John Critchley Prince Poems)
I HEAR men laud the coming Exhibition, I read its promise in the printed page,And thence I learn that its pacific ...
The Return Of Peace. (John Critchley Prince Poems)
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 (John Critchley Prince Poems)
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 ...
Judge Not Too Hastily (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Oh! judge not too hastily man and his mind, Nor deem ye can read him at once and for aye,There is ...
Home. (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Let us honour the gods of the household alway, Love ever the hearth and its graces,The spot where serenely and cheerfully ...
Christmas Eve (John Critchley Prince Poems)
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 ...
The Lost One (John Critchley Prince Poems)
I mourn, albeit I mourn in vain, To miss that being from my sideWho bound in Love's resistless chain My selfishness and ...
The Happy Change — (a temperance rhyme.) (John Critchley Prince Poems)
"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 (John Critchley Prince Poems)
"Look up!" cried the seaman, with nerves like steel, As skyward his glance he cast,And beheld his own son grow giddy, ...
Geraldine (John Critchley Prince Poems)
There thou goest, there thou goest, In thy virgin robes arrayed,Pale and drooping, for thou knowest, What true heart thou hast betrayed.Hark! ...
Not Bread Alone (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Albeit for lack of bread we die, Die in a hundred nameless ways,'Tis not for bread alone we cry In these our ...
A Fragment (John Critchley Prince Poems)
"Maiden, as bright as the Hunter's star,When it shines in its cloudless home afar;Dove of the forest, whose timorous eyesAre ...
Kindly Words (John Critchley Prince Poems)
The wild rose, mingled with the fragrant bine,Is calmly graceful, beautiful to me,And glorious are the countless stars that shineWith ...
A Thought On War (John Critchley Prince Poems)
'Tis strange, profanely strange, but men will stand Upon some spot of blighted happiness,Where the Omnipotent's mysterious hand Has fallen with disaster ...
Autumnal Sonnet 1 (John Critchley Prince Poems)
It seems but yesterday, when merry Spring Leapt o'er the lea, while clustering round her feet Sprang buds and blossoms, beautiful and ...
Autumnal Sonnet 3 (John Critchley Prince Poems)
The varying seasons ever roll, and run Into each other, like that arc of light,Born of the shower and coloured by ...
A Night Thought (John Critchley Prince Poems)
How grandly solemn is this arch of night, How wonderfully beautiful and vast,Crowded with worlds enswathed in living light, Coeval with th' ...
Autumnal Sonnet 2 (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Not yet is autumn desolate and cold, For all his woods are kindling into huesOf gorgeous beauty, mixed and manifold, Which in ...
Love (John Critchley Prince Poems)
Love is an odour from the heavenly bowers Which stirs our senses tenderly, and brings Dreams which are shadows of diviner things,Beyond ...
To A Blind Poet (John Critchley Prince Poems)
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Precious Time (John Critchley Prince Poems)
When we have passed beyond life's middle arch, With what accelerated speed the years Seem to flit by us, sowing hopes and ...