The Undying Splendour (John William Streets Poems)
I: ENGLANDThere lies an isle, a splendour of the seaHaunting as Babylon, illustrious as Rome:A race of Saxon freemen there ...
I: ENGLANDThere lies an isle, a splendour of the seaHaunting as Babylon, illustrious as Rome:A race of Saxon freemen there ...
Beneath a hawthorn bush, dying, he layUpon an orchard slope, a gentle hill;The silvery moonlight thro' the night did playUpon ...
Let music vast, triumphal, fill the world's great nave,Voicing the peerless theme of noble youthWho rose to Life's sublimest greatness ...
I: VISIONCharmed with the ceaseless music of the brook-Babbling with hope and with Youth's deathless song;Full with the joys of ...
Like memories born in a dream my Fancy around thee plays,Re-embodies the life, the beauty of olden daysThat were thine ...
Once in thy secret close, now almost bare,Peace yielded up her bountiful largess;The dawn dropp'd sunshine thro' thy leafy dress;The ...
Impressions are like winds; you feel their coolSwift kiss upon the brow, yet know not whereThey sprang to birth: so ...
You called to me from o'er the restless tide :Within the deepening shades of Death's confines,-Like winds grown free among ...
Reach out thy hands, thy spirit's hands to meAnd pluck the Youth, the magic from my heart-Magic of dreams whose ...
Two shining eyes that never lose their light,Haunting with dreams like stars within the night;Two rosy lips whose magic kisses ...
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